Victor Hugo Quotes

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Victor Hugo

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Bible
  • Meaning
  • Searching

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Effort

• I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I really enjoy being an actor!

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Being

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beautiful
  • New York
  • Editors

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Words
  • Government

• I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Women

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

  

  John Desmond Bernal
  • Food
  • Respect
  • Control

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Hope
  • Gifts