Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Positive
  • Model
  • Try

• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • America
  • Justice

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Past
  • Interesting
  • Change

• Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • History
  • Responsibility
  • Expectation

• Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Attention
  • Always

• Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Kind
  • Gay

• Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trust
  • Congress
  • Protection

• Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Scrap

• Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

  

  Bill Ferguson
  • Compassion
  • Aspect
  • Resistance

• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

  

  Bill Haywood
  • Gold
  • Owners
  • Alchemy

• Politics is the womb in which war develops.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Womb

• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Escape
  • Strive