Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

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• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

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• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

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• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

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• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

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• He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

  

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• It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.

  

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• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

  

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• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

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• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  

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• Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

  

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• Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

  

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• Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.

  

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• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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