Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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  • More
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• Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Like
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• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • End
  • Battle
  • Texas

• I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Emotion

• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• Blake did what we needed him to do for us tonight. My nerves were a little shabby at the beginning of the game, but it's good to know that we have a guy that will go out and battle for us. He's going to give us a chance to win every time he takes the mound.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• To master fear is the most important battle to win.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Winning

• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Sorrow
  • Consolation
  • Console

• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  

  Freya Stark
  • May
  • Soul
  • Sex

• I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Giving
  • Style
  • Emotion

• If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Battle
  • Destroy

• The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Ignore
  • Flood
  • Assad

• Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Forgiveness

• Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Emotion
  • Battle
  • Sorrow