Quotes About Gatsby's Swimming Pool

#1. Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

#3. They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.

Emma Straub

#4. I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's the perk of being Chinese, you can walk through walls and no one really notices. (155)

Eddie Huang

#5. When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

Martin R. Lemieux

#7. The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

William J. Brennan

#8. Chains of gold are still chains.

Robert Thier

#9. All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

Raekwon

#10. My sleep that night was restless and unquiet, haunted by the ungodly howls of the horrible creature. Its yellow eyes lingered in my mind's eye as I awoke the next morning,

Brad Meltzer

#11. It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

Jimmy Jean-Louis

#12. Magic is a cliche, but what do you call it when you enter a place and you can pretend you're anywhere and everywhere from the Mesozoic era to present day, provided you haven't killed every bit of childhood wonder with cynicism? It is magic. The kind that exists.

Wayne Gladstone

#13. In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Euripides

#14. In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Ron Fairly