Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh - Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Three

• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Favorite
  • Go

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

  

  Val Guest
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Scene

• In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • White
  • Canvas

• If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

  

  Karl Marx

• When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Help

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• ...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Bad
  • Culture
  • Education

• This idea of reserving right to withdraw was started at Richmd. & considered as a conditional ratification which was itself considered as worse than a rejection.

  

  James Madison
  • Rejection

• DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Work
  • Heaven
  • Mirror

• You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People

• My love life is good, and I feel like part of what's made it good is not talking about it.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Bird
  • Superhero

• Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

  

  Brian Stableford
  • God
  • Responsibility

• Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • High Explosive

• The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.

  

  Nicholas Eberstadt
  • Generation
  • Population
  • Projections

• Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Party

• I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh - Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley