Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
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It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
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There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
