Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
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Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.
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Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
