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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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.

  

  Bear Bryant
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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.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

  Pat Nixon
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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.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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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.

  

  Dana Plato
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• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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  • You
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• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
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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.

  

  Edgar Winter
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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.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Love
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• No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Love
  • For Her

• I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

  

  Dan Brown
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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.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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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.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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  • Society
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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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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  • Heart
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• The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Acting
  • Philosophy
  • Connection

• I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Heart
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• I am a huge romantic at heart.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Heart
  • Romantic

• I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Person
  • Decide
  • Attempt

• I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

  

  Adam Rogers
  • People
  • Wine
  • Realizing

• 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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Philosophy