Gatsby's Boyhood Schedule Quotes

#1. Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

Selma Lagerlof

#2. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Voltaire

#3. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#4. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Anna Howard Shaw

#6. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Dalai Lama

#7. For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

#8. Both boys stayed very quiet for a few minutes, neither one wanting to say anything he might regret.

John Boyne

#9. Those who love the rain much cannot long remain dry!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

Isaac Asimov

#11. All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

George R R Martin

#12. For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

Logan Pearsall Smith