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

• 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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

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

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Adventure
  • Down

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Year

• 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

• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • She
  • Idea
  • Books

• 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

• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Lie
  • Misrepresentation
  • Inexactitude

• 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

• As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Music
  • Child
  • Pianist

• I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Air
  • Needs
  • Flames

• Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Important
  • Change
  • Things

• No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • Power
  • Choice
  • No Matter

• That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Heaven

• 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