Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Wealth
  • Tax

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Angel
  • Monster
  • Either

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Necessarily

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good
  • Movie

• It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Government
  • Vote

• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • World
  • Rules
  • 21st Century

• The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Man
  • Words
  • Right

• Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Determination

• Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Simple