Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • You

• I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
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• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
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• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
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• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
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• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Opportunity
  • Practice

• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Peace
  • Laughter

• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Value

• Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Career

• As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Time
  • History

• Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • American
  • History
  • Moon

• I made mistakes in every trial.

  

  Marcia Clark

• Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Work
  • Different

• Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Forever

• When I was 13 they were saying your album won't come out until your sweet 16. I felt really frustrated because that felt like forever from then and I felt like I was ready then. Looking back I wasn't ready.

  

  Cheyenne Kimball
  • Forever
  • Ready
  • Frustrated

• After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Magic

• The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Quality
  • Opinion
  • Fight

• Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Forever
  • Gods
  • Creatures