Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now - Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Books
  • Four
  • Starbucks

• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Go
  • Weak

• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Alabama

• I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Design
  • Process

• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Journey

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Think
  • Stress
  • Losing

• The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Job
  • Me

• Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Never
  • Worth

• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Girl

• 'You do your best, we do the rest.' That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Up
  • God
  • Rest

• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Life
  • Together

• I shall have more to say when I am dead.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

• When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Women
  • Book

• Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • House
  • Personality
  • Architecture

• No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • People
  • Foundation
  • Satisfying

• He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now - Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley