Victor Hugo Quotes

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Rest
  • Working
  • Helps

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Know
  • Rest
  • Learn

• If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Rest

• Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Pack

• Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Luck

• Too much rest is rust.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rest

• What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Song
  • Rest
  • Balance

• If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Job
  • Luck

• I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • School
  • Bad
  • Drama

• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Rock

• In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Military

• In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Celebrity

• There is just one life for each of us: our own.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Own
  • Each Of Us

• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Happy
  • Spirit
  • Dog

• Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Rest
  • Luck
  • Fortunate