A Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Been Faster Laurels Nothing Rested Than

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English - Poet
August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

Mary Kay Ash

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

Brian Tracy

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

Clifford Geertz

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Tom Peters

Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster.

Deepak Chopra

I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.

Shannon Sharpe

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

Nancy E. Turner

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

Michael Dickinson

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

Frank Herbert

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Jacques Barzun

As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

Kim Harrison

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

Anna Sui

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle