Victor Hugo Quotes

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Like

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
  • Human

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Sports
  • Years
  • Cricket

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Book
  • Childhood

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Yourself

• I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Yoga

• There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

  

  William Golding
  • Lord
  • Movement
  • Teeth

• Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Language
  • Beauty
  • Translation

• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Language
  • Deserve
  • Victim

• I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

  

  Red Smith
  • Language
  • Writers
  • Grammar

• The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Laws
  • Commonwealth

• A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Language
  • Movement
  • Human Intellect