Victor Hugo Quotes

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Victor Hugo

• Prayer
• Thanks
• Solitude
• Wings
• Thanksgiving

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• A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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  • High
  • Running

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
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• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
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• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Need

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
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• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Earth
  • Girl
  • Proud

• Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Cutting

• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

  

  Ma Jun
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cats

• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Bullying

• Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Never
  • Maintained

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Fat

• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Thanks

• Tollywood is where I made a name for myself, and it's all thanks to the love and affection my fans have showered on me. The least I can do in return is to learn to speak the Telugu language correctly.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Language

• On a prayer,In a song,I hear your voice,And it keeps me hanging on.Oh, raining down, against the wind,I'm reaching out,'Till we reach the circle's end.When you come back to me again.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Song
  • Prayer
  • Wind

• Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Power
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Persons

• To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Thanks
  • Solitude