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.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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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.
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Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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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)
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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?
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'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
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El dolor está arriba, no abajo. Y todos creen que el dolor está abajo. Y todos quieren subir.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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Boeing is a United States icon.
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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.
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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.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
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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.
