Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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I begin again, Dr.Y,this neverland journal,full of my own sense of filth.Why else keep a journal, if notto examine your own filth?
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'What civilization would be complete without a cat?' the Professor went on. 'What greater blessing to the home than the kindly yet watchful eye of this tiger of the fireside?'
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Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.
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As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
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Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
