Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Management
  • Will

• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Always

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • May
  • Reality
  • Your

• I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Methodist

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• 'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Think
  • Color
  • Thanks

• A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • India
  • Mozart

• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Couple

• My wife is a very strong woman.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Strong
  • Wife

• There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

  

  James Bay
  • Dad
  • Uncle

• What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Focus
  • Celebration

• As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Single

• I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

  

  David Gregory
  • Faith
  • Door

• I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.

  

  Lawrence Summers

• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Courage
  • Fortune
  • Riches

• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  

  William Crookes
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Criticism

• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Mind
  • Youth
  • State

• I don't even sing in the shower.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Sing
  • Even
  • Shower

• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Ambition
  • Sing