Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

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• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

  

  Adam Grant
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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
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• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
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• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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  • Tired

• I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • Faces
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• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  

  John Doerr
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• Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

  

  Walker Percy
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• I showered the slang, simple as ABC's / Skip over the D's and rock the microphone with ease (E's).

  

  Eminem
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• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

  

  Mother Teresa
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• Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Faith
  • Heaven
  • Prayer