Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

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• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

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• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

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• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

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• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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• In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

  

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• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

  

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• Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

  

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• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  

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• Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

  

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• Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.

  

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• Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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• He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Future
  • Virtue
  • Angel