More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
