Victor Hugo Quotes
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch
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You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.
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The view that changes in the early church resulted in the descent of a blanket of stygian darkness over the entire earth such that humankind had no contact with God or the Spirit for nearly two millennia simply doesn’t stand up to the scrutiny of modern scholarship. Scholars of today, benefiting from perspectives and information not readily available a century ago, understand that the ‘Dark Ages’ were not nearly so dark as previously had been thought.
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As individual countries, our impacts are minimal, but as a coordinated group of countries, we can achieve much.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
