Victor Hugo Quotes

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Education
  • Inspiration
  • Information

• There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Where

• History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Important
  • Long

• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Think
  • Me
  • Gangster

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • My Life

• There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Future
  • George Bush
  • Entrust

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Love
  • Shoes
  • Fetishist

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Attention

• Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Support
  • Prayer
  • Search

• The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All of us have our reasons, innumerable, personal and complex. From many points of view a climb is a challenge we must meet.

  

  Gaston Rebuffat

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Old
  • Dictionary
  • Cap