Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
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• A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

  

  Jose Altuve
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• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
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• So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
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• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
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• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  

  Ann Druyan
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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Sin
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• Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

  

  Eliza Haywood
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• Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
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• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
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• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

  

  Aristotle
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• Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

  

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• Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

  

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• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Perfect
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• He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

  

  Emily Bronte
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• Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

  

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Art
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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  

  William James
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• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Virtues
  • Freeman