Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
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We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.
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Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?
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I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.
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New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!
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I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
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I don't back down. I never win, but I don't back down
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The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.
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Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
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Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.
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How do you make yourself not like someone?
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
