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.

Victor Hugo

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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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Control

• I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Adventure
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• 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.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Want
  • Honesty

• 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.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Morning
  • Sun
  • Quiet

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• 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.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Effort

• I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Why
  • Game
  • Games

• 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.

  

  Albert Venn Dicey
  • Law
  • English

• Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Yoga
  • Inspiring

• There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Crazy

• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  

  Saint Augustine

• For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Someone
  • Ridiculous
  • Overweight

• We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Trying
  • Foolish
  • Referees

• A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Never
  • Gentleman

• The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I prefer safety. That's what I've played my whole life, but if the team needs me to play linebacker, then I'll do it.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Team
  • Needs
  • Safety

• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Auschwitz

• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Mark

• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Fear
  • Religious
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Needs
  • Bread
  • Ideal