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

• 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Men
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Evil
  • Cooking
  • Bird

• Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• 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