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 see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Difference

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • Men
  • May

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

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Know
  • Rest
  • Learn

• I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Great
  • Rest
  • Always

• 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

• I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Know
  • Luck
  • Lucky

• 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

• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Job

• In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Power
  • Lies
  • Author

• My grandmother was a huge western fan. She'd have me watch with her. 'Shane,' 'Bonanza,' 'Duel in the Sun,' I saw them all with her. I used to watch them until the TV turned to snow.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • She
  • Sun
  • Grandmother

• At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work
  • School
  • Book

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Rest
  • Luck
  • Fortunate