Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • You
  • End
  • Step

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fool

• He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Life

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.

  

  Elias Canetti

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Thinking
  • Free
  • Hate

• I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Country
  • Business
  • Justice

• 'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Die

• Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Country
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Book
  • Today
  • Science

• I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Strong
  • Vision

• You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

  

  Marti Noxon

• I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song about somebody, and they would come to my show. I wouldn't be able to play the whole thing, because, there would be some giant, loaded secret coming up in like, the third verse, or something.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Found

• I love research. I love learning...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Learning

• Whoever says that a man can live the Christian life, while at the same time successfully participating in the present order of things, is either profound in the lack of knowledge, or else he deliberately lies.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Lies

• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  

  Nicholas Schmidt
  • Discovered
  • Beliefs
  • Truths

• Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Knowledge
  • Truths