Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Morning

• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  

  Sampha
  • Want
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Nervous

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Learn

• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Want
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Done

• When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Art
  • High

• We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Together

• The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • Tea

• I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

  

  Cynthia Dill
  • Education
  • Health
  • Single

• I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Rough
  • Gentlemen

• The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Liar

• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Self-Control
  • Ruling

• It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go "oh no, do it again, do it again" - all of those a requickly made decisions. The fact that you can see the images right away in a funny way makes the whole relationship more casual. I don't want a casual relationship with my subject.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Relationship
  • Decisions
  • Images

• That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Perspective
  • View
  • Gentlemen