Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY SHELLEY I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen...
MARY SHELLEY Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent o...
MARY SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY SHELLEY What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my mid...
MARY SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their mind...
MARY SHELLEY Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowled...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his nati...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purp...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the sou...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monst...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the so...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY [Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy yo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their min...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the sa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul ma...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are tomorrow's past.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was n...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am malicious because I am miserable
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ic...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter V
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that peo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Live, and be happy, and make others so.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY From thence we proceeded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembra...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which sho...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and assoc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick su...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and rui...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience,...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did no...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all tru...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the exce...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that the...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound yo...
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 2...
SHELLEY WINTERS As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated,...
SHELLEY BERMAN It gets to be expensive. In the summer there is plenty of grass for them to graze on, but as soon as...
SHELLEY ROHL An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimin...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay...
SHELLEY BERKLEY I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.
SHELLEY HENNIG In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
SHELLEY DUVALL Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
SHELLEY WINTERS If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, he...
SHELLEY LONG If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you h...
SHELLEY LONG I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 2...
SHELLEY WINTERS I've been staying at their lodge in the Himalayas for years, ... They have this beautiful lodge. You...
PETE SHELLEY Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That'...
SHELLEY MORRISON I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
SHELLEY HENNIG I'm personally more of a low-maintenance type of person. I want things to be easy and quick, esp...
SHELLEY HENNIG People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism...
SHELLEY CONN I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines wi...
SHELLEY CONN We didn't start very well, but we battled hard to win. There were a lot of good battles at the net. ...
SHELLEY METTLER For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
SHELLEY BERKLEY It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.
SHELLEY FABARES I was a 'kid' kid. Even though I experimented with performing at an early age my parents never thoug...
SHELLEY LONG I'm a real 'go, go' person. . . I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pa...
SHELLEY LONG People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it di...
SHELLEY LONG He [Mr. Wrong] still shows up in my dreams, and I still don't know what to do with him. I was quite ...
SHELLEY LONG I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, b...
SHELLEY LONG I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.
SHELLEY LONG I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placi...
SHELLEY LONG Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
SHELLEY LONG Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.
RICHARD SHELLEY I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
SHELLEY LONG All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
SHELLEY WINTERS I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives ...
SHELLEY LONG Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN ...I was a Champion living the Champion life where nothing was impossible and everything was an oppo...
SHELLEY LUBBEN ...Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways ac...
SHELLEY LUBBEN We have it all in our strategic mix of professional alliances. We planned ahead of time the obstacle...
WANDA SHELLEY High-level nuclear waste is already being stored at nuclear power plants across our nation, and ther...
SHELLEY BERKLEY