Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
Kate Flannery -
At least I can say that I'm honest.
Adam Lambert
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
Jack Layton -
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Walter Lippmann -
Sausage-Seller: You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?
Lisa Ling -
'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
Chuck Palahniuk
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El dolor está arriba, no abajo. Y todos creen que el dolor está abajo. Y todos quieren subir.
Antonio Porchia -
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
Constance Baker Motley -
Boeing is a United States icon.
Alan Mulally -
I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.
Brad Carson -
If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.
Kathleen Kennedy -
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
Philip Yancey
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers -
The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.
Kevin Brady -
When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum Brexit they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.
Brian Reade -
I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.
David Thibodeau -
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton