Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The curse of the great is ennui.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Lovely

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Culture
  • Wealth
  • Labor

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• I like to show that I'm real.

  

  Maluma
  • Real
  • Like
  • Show

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Time
  • Success
  • Be Yourself

• First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Real
  • First
  • Name

• Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.

  

  David Otunga
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Champion

• All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Light
  • Cooking
  • Winter

• We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Age
  • Light

• There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Best
  • Period

• The curse of the great is ennui.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Great
  • Curse
  • Ennui