Victor Hugo Quotes

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

Victor Hugo

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• Agony

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• When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Judge

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Judge
  • Vote
  • Presidential

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Death

• I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Trump

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Rule Of Law

• I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Maud Muller looked and sighed: 'Ah me!That I the Judge's bride might be!He would dress me up in silks so fine,And praise and toast me at his wine.'

  

  Vanity
  • Up
  • Judge
  • Wine

• 'Let people judge me as they please-I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.'And he suddenly understood that the disgust which he had lately felt toward everybody … was disgust with himself.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Judge

• A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I think it is up to the judge to say what the Constitution provided, even if what it provided is not the best answer, even if you think it should be amended. If that's what it says, that's what it says.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Up
  • Judge

• If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Time
  • Good
  • Judge

• And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

  

  George Eliot
  • Music
  • Discovery
  • Agony

• I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Build
  • Houses
  • Decorating

• For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • History
  • Language

• Just to see you smile, I'd do anything.That you wanted me to when all is said and done.I'd never count the cost.It's worth all that's lost.Just to see you smile.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Done
  • Lost
  • Smile

• The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Judge
  • Houses
  • Agony