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F. Scott Fitzgerald20 quotes

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934 The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934 Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 All 20 quotes →

Mitch Hedberg20 quotes

I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack, and that price fucks with your head, because then you start to think that you're gonna sell pop. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 I bought a donut, and they gave me a receipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut, man, I'll just give you the money, then you give me the donut—end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a donut. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 I never joined the Army because "at ease" was never that easy to me. It seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 I've seen a human pyramid before. It was very unnecessary. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 You know you can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 All 20 quotes →

Bob Dylan13 quotes

For the loser now will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964 Come mothers and fathers, Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964 How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965 The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965 How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?... The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. — Bob Dylan · 1963 How many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan · 1962 All 13 quotes →

Sinclair Lewis13 quotes

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis · 1927 He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935 It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935 Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935 I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along. — Sinclair Lewis · 1922 Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935 All 13 quotes →

J. Paul Getty3 quotes

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren. — J. Paul Getty · 1973 No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965 If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. — J. Paul Getty · 1957

Robert M. Pirsig3 quotes

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974

Thorstein Veblen3 quotes

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899 Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899 The dog... Commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899

Charles M. Schulz2 quotes

I love mankind…it's people I can't stand!! — Charles M. Schulz · 1959 Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. — Charles M. Schulz · 1961

Harry A. Blackmun2 quotes

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. — Harry A. Blackmun · 1973 In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. — Harry A. Blackmun · 1978

Catharine MacKinnon1 quote

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women. — Catharine MacKinnon · 1983

Charles Lindbergh1 quote

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed. — Charles Lindbergh · 1938

Garrison Keillor1 quote

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time. — Garrison Keillor · 1990

Kate Millett1 quote

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature. — Kate Millett · 1970

Midge Decter1 quote

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women. — Midge Decter · 1972