Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

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• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

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• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

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• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

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• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

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• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

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• I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

  

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• No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

  

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• First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

  

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• Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

  

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• You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth