Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
-
Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
-
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
-
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
-
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
-
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
-
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
-
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
-
I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
-
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
-
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
-
I speak two languages, Body and English.
-
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
-
Artists talk in 'art speak.'
-
It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
-
Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.
-
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
-
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
