Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
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Related [The women's perspective implied in the word] brides ... Anne Mellor, a Mary Shelley scholar, commen... MARCIA TANNER There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr... ERICA JONG Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'... ROBIN HOBB Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, an... SAMUEL RUTHERFORD Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private ... FRANCES CONROY 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 Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest... MATTHEW LEWIS Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enou... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN And do you know the oddest thing about murder and war and violence?' 'Oh, Mary Shelley, p... CAT WINTERS Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice... OLIVER GOLDSMITH I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. GUSTAV MAHLER Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. THOMAS A. EDISON Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. THOMAS ALVA EDISON You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ... EMILY BRONTë Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me am... DANTE ALIGHIERI Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through m... DANTE ALIGHIERI I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley... SIMONE ELKELES Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard... ME Just look at what is spelled: Hal Jordan BrUce Wayne Victor Stone Clark KenT... ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester... ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high. ME If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, w... CATHERINE OF SIENA Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compas... ABHIJIT NASKAR She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibl... JORDAN STRATFORD Oh invade me with your scalding mouth, search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes, bu... PABLO NERUDA Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy... JOHN GREEN You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray... EMILY BRONTë am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spanie... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o... THOMAS CARLYLE I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anywa... FRIDA KAHLO Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of... ANDREW V. MASON If you are not able to express your own original energy and ideas, if you do not listen to your own ... SUNDAY ADELAJA You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with mu... DEREK LANDY Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. BIBLE [S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! ... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly s... THOMAS A. EDISON Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly s... THOMAS ALVA EDISON Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly... THOMAS ALVA EDISON Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thorough... THOMAS A. EDISON Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y... EDMONIA LEWIS Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity... ABHIJIT NASKAR Even if you lie to me...that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can giv... YUN KOUGA Listen to your conscience and live in a way that no one say a bad word about you SUNDAY ADELAJA Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Throu... DANTE ALIGHIERI Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer! ARTHUR MILLER Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. ARTHUR MILLER Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. BRUCE FROEMMING Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep ... JOSEPH SOBRAN "The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to you More easily. But Ive a... CAROL PEARSON "The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to you More easily. But I’v... CAROL LYNN PEARSON You are the driver of your own life, listen to your passengers but follow your own route to your des... KISHAN S CHAUHAN One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You... TIGER WOODS Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal... THOMAS CARLYLE If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and wil... MARTIN LUTHER You are my Lord and King; You are my sovereign and graceful God. What I have You graciously gave me,... NORM TOMLINSON Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac... GASTON LEROUX Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me. GASTON LEROUX We must have a creature made of Darkness to break through the cage of Darkenss that imprisons your g... P.C. CAST Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amo... DANTE ALIGHIERI Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumbl... STEVE MARABOLI Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. RICHARD BACH You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W... MARY OLIVER Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman i... D.H. LAWRENCE My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. WALKER PERCY My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l... STEVEN SPIELBERG If you had any conscience at all, this wouldn't happen. We would find other sources of energy instea... LARRY GIBSON Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you. AVI [E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses... C.S. LEWIS Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I w... ANDY WARHOL Oh my, you big stud, your dancing boobs have enchanted me with your hypnotic sexual magnitudeness. KYLE ADAMS A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone th... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. BRUCE FROEMMING I will praise any man that will praise me. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everythi... RVM O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. RICHARD BACH Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,... C. S. LEWIS Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a co... SUZY KASSEM I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye tur... BIBLE I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships -- because the... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of... JOHN CALVIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of... JOHN CALVIN When Misery calls; you answer with screams of poor me, oh me. All to forget that you made the choice... SUSIE L HILL This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll d... JAMES FREY If I was drowning you would part the sea And risk your own life to rescue me . . . JAMIE MCGUIRE Though he slay me, yet I will praise him," he began softly, his voice a little tremulous at first. "... JENNIFER FREITAG
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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 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