Victor Hugo Quotes
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Quotes to Explore
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
