Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
Quotes to Explore
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.
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Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
