Victor Hugo Quotes
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.Victor Hugo
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke -
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
Kassie DePaiva -
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil -
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
Harold Ramis -
We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee -
I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
Salma Hayek -
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
Ramana Maharshi -
Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
Manish Dayal -
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Nathan Outteridge -
I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
Floyd Skloot -
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Adam Hamilton -
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
J. C. Ryle
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.'
Marshall McLuhan -
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
Matthew Henson -
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
Calvin Trillin -
The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
John Nelson Darby -
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo