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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

Topics

Power Discipline Think You Others

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

Jim Evans

Job Team Fighting Three Manager

Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I'll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Day Universe Test One Day Never Up

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Jenna Jameson

Fear You Stumble Fearful

I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for business. I started working at a very early stage. Immediately after my SSC board examination, I took up odd jobs in shops, as I wanted to contribute to my family.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Family Father Business Early Born

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Jon Krakauer

Best Golf Growing Try Defend See

I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.

Johnny Flynn

Writing Feel You Down Sitting Write

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.

Diego Klattenhoff

Stand Up Stand You Outfit Military

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Annalee Newitz

Capitalism Inequality System Economic

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Ali Babacan

Law Democracy Values Rule Of Law

How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!'

Ricky Gervais

Brother Grace Me Reality Fall Want

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Mortimer Adler

Truth Heart Free End Know Free Will

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.

Lionel Shriver

Politics Believe Confident Feel Been