James Shirley Quotes

#1. Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

James Shirley

#2. The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ...

James Shirley

#3. How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!

James Shirley

#4. She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

Sherry Turkle

#5. We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Henry Cisneros

#6. When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

James Shirley

#7. We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

John Piper

#8. One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

James Dobson

#9. The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

James Shirley

#10. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Death lays his icy hand on kings.

James Shirley

#12. I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

Edward John Trelawny

#13. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

James Shirley

#14. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now

Beth Morey

#15. James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" It wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.

Celeste Ng

#16. Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

V.S. Naipaul

#17. The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Luc De Clapiers

#18. In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

Pankaj Mishra

#19. There is no armour against fate.

James Shirley

#20. Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Anton Chekhov

#21. Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.

James Shirley

#22. There is no armor against fate.

James Shirley

#23. I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

Alan Alda

#24. Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

James Shirley

#25. Some days, adulting was too much responsibility. Get up for work. Brush your hair. Pay bills. It was an endless list of too many things and not enough time. The struggle was real, my friends. But

Max Monroe

#26. There's this funny thing about empathy. It's not actually in limited supply. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you don't deserve to be understood. To feel comfort.

Cora Carmack