Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
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Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
