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.

  

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

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I'm kind of a private person.

  

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

  

  Taylor Swift
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• 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
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• 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
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  • Done
  • Stop

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

  

  Earl Wilson
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

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• You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

  

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  • Perspective

• We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

  

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  • Moving
  • Road

• It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

  

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  • Life
  • Done
  • Years

• 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