Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
Salma Hayek -
Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
Vin Diesel -
Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
G. Stanley Hall -
I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.
Sabrina Carpenter -
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
Mackenzie Phillips -
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
Vera Brittain -
This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
Jack Layton -
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
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There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'
Laz Alonso -
I'm prone to breaking out on my chest and back because I work out a lot.
Hannah Bronfman -
I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
Katherine Heigl -
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
Laurence Fox -
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Gene Tunney
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
Thomas Aquinas -
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Seneca the Younger -
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton