Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Quotes to Explore
-
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
-
Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
-
Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
-
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
-
My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
-
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
-
I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
-
Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
-
We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
-
The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.
-
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
-
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
-
I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
-
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
-
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
-
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
-
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
-
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
