Victor Hugo Quotes

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Truth
  • Doing
  • Truth Is

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • May
  • Truth
  • Fall

• For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Time
  • Age
  • Gold

• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Passion

• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Truth

• Ridiculous as may seem the dualities of conflict at a given time, it does not follow that dualism is a worthless process. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • World
  • Truth
  • American

• I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Truth

• The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Obstacles

• A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

  

  James Callaghan
  • World
  • Truth

• The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne
  • Music
  • Business
  • Truth

• Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Courage

• Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles

• The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

  

  Bill Viola
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• For my part, he was God's candidate.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God

• Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Justice
  • Equality

• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

  

  Victor Hugo
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