Unaffected Scorn Quotes & Sayings

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction - Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch?" -- Rudy Steiner — Markus Zusak

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction
Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No
Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men. — F Scott Fitzgerald

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks. — Steve Fowler

I had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along, that what I called fate was merely the reverberation of their will, a tale scripted not by some universal storyteller but by people who would elude justice for as long as their actions were met with resignation rather than outrage. — Rachel Cusk

If I could for a moment just inspire you to love yourself, that would be worth EVERYTHING — Lady Gaga

I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time. — George Stroumboulopoulos

Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian) (Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.) And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right. — Arianna Huffington

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. — Jeffery Deaver

There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly. — Jami Attenberg

For which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that. — Shirley Maclaine

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Gratitude is an overflowing joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face. — Greg Mitchell

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting. — Whitney Thompson