Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

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• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

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• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  

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• I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

  

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• India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

  

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• One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

  

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• Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

  

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• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  

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• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  

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• Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!

  

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• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

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• I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

  

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• Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

  

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• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

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• Hearts are worn in these dark ages;You're not alone in this story's pages.Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying,And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in.

  

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• I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

  

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• David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.

  

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• In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

  

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• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

  

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• Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Success
  • Fate
  • God Is