Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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I'm not radical.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
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I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.
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I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.
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The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'
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At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
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I'm a firecracker when it comes to my husband. I'm a stand by my man kind of girl.
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You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
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I don’t care if these words don’t rhyme, I don’t care if this melody isn’t exciting, I don’t care if these people have heard this story before—this is my story and I’m putting it out.
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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
