Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

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• We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.

  

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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

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• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

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• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

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• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

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• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

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• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

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• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

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• We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

  

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• The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

  

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• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  

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• Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

  

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• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

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• Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

  

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• Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

  

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• I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

  

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• Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

  

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• I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

  

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• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  

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• Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Air
  • Ambition
  • Fortune