Anthony Patch Quotes

#1. Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!" - yet

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Saul Alinsky

#4. What I do think, however, is that when you're writing about a minority, you must show respect for them and be careful not to misappropriate. Allies must have a care not to become the spokespeople

Sean Kennedy

#5. It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Walter Annenberg

#6. I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

Eartha Kitt

#7. International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Karl Liebknecht

#8. Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

Tommy Thompson

#9. Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

Marci Shimoff

#10. He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

Rosalind Coward