Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Will
  • Lie

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Will
  • Beats
  • Wear

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!Raffi: And then I kicked him.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Proud
  • Boy
  • Smart

• How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

  

  Ellen Key
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

  

  Ellen Key
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Great
  • American
  • Accountability

• I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Life
  • Forever

• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People

• It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias and education of the many who have essayed to solve the problem.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • People
  • Future
  • Education

• Poland understands as few other nations do that every nation must be free to chart its own course, to forge its own partnerships, to choose its own allies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Live

• That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

  

  Billy Magnussen
  • Work
  • Live

• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Sun
  • Poverty

• Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Education
  • University