F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • More
  • Office
  • Approval

• Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Media

• Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Help
  • Like
  • Journalism

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • High
  • Dance
  • Then

• My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Style
  • Touch
  • Androgyny

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Me
  • Never

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Bad

• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Education
  • Learning

• The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Hand

• In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Country
  • Power

• The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Faith
  • Space

• (Hawthorne Abendsen) told us about our own world. This, what's around us now. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • World

• Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Praying
  • Conditions

• I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Work
  • Past
  • Proud

• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald