Victor Hugo Quotes
In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
Quotes to Explore
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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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.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Pilates is great.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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My private life stays private.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side. But believe in man, in man’s redeeming power, in man’s remoulding energy, in man’s approaching triumph through knowledge, love and work.
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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
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Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
