Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

  

  LaToya London
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Just

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Write

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Hate
  • Others
  • Interfere

• What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Gun
  • Lose
  • Worst

• L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Same

• It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Wonderful

• The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Political
  • Peace

• When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Study
  • Literature

• I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Political
  • Hand
  • Revolution

• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

  

  James Madison
  • Life
  • Political
  • Wish

• There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

  

  Chrysippus

• I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Mom
  • Lawyer

• I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Deep

• Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Evidence

• I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

  

  Cory Booker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  

  William Blake
  • Wind
  • Vain
  • Atoms

• Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley