Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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God has pity on kindergarten children.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
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He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
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It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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Lions make leopards tame.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
