A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Complete Libertine Transition

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

George Santayana

I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn't want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.

Hari Nef

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

George Gaylord Simpson

Essentially the Obama administration sabotaged Trump's transition to the White House. They were doing this during the transition. While Obama's talking about, "I want the smoothest transition in the history of transitions," he was sabotaging it even then.

Rush Limbaugh

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

Ansel Adams

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Jean Cocteau

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Kobe Bryant

What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do is to recognize the feasibility of making the transition from the particular to the general - to make the transition from the portrait of one postman - to take Van Gogh, for example, to something that is every postman. That synecdotal transition that most selfies don't make. But we who live in this world, and not simply in our private realities, understand that that's the transition our art has to make.

Stuart Franklin

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

Primo Levi

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

Doc Hastings

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

William Pitt

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal