Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
Eartha Kitt -
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Edmund Morgan -
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett -
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie -
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
Hans Kung -
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
F. Sionil Jose -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
Madison Marlow -
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale -
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova -
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons -
My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. Forster -
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
Ingrid Newkirk -
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.
Alex Shakar -
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton