Quotes For The Great Gatsby Chapter 1

#1. I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

DeForest Kelley

#2. To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.

Victor Hugo

#3. The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

Nick Harkaway

#4. Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.

Joanne Harris

#5. Violence is never right. But a man has a duty to keep his wife in check.

Ellen Hopkins

#6. It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

Mary Stewart

#7. The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#8. The shock of orgasm pulls you under the wave you never saw coming. It wrestles you to the point of exhaustion and allows you to breathe only when you've died la petite mort. When you've given all and received everything in return.

Megan Mitcham

#9. If you are focused on God, then all "mountains" are under your feet.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#11. What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.

Christian De Duve

#12. They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them

Nicolas Barreau