Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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• For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Important
  • Me
  • Control

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Up
  • Religious

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Rather
  • Million

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Start
  • Grow
  • Big

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Saying
  • Vote
  • Responsible

• There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Religion
  • Color

• You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Brain
  • Goes

• You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant to my work on Mercy Street is that this illness is timeless. We didn't have a diagnosis for PTSD in the Civil War like we do today, but those men and women definitely suffered from similar psychological wounds as our men and women in uniform do today.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Issues
  • Deal
  • Civil War

• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Dad

• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Men
  • Brave

• It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • World
  • Writing

• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  

  James Chanos
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton