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

• 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 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

• We are fighting a major internal war against terrorism in Northern Ireland, and need more troops in order to win it.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • War
  • Fighting

• If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Stop

• It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Different
  • Women

• I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Religious

• The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • Choice

• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • Passion
  • Complicated
  • Patriot

• I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

  

  Oliver North
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Think

• 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