Victor Hugo Quotes

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Break
  • Disaster

• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
  • Myself

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Going
  • Out
  • Beaten

• I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Money
  • Song

• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Ambitious
  • Ninja

• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Government

• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Car
  • New
  • Expectations

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • War
  • Kind
  • Stupidity

• With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Space

• One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Family
  • Home
  • Words

• I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Character

• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Torture
  • Museums