Victor Hugo Quotes

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Victor Hugo

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• How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Cutting
  • Without
  • Come

• My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Food

• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Successful

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  

  C. Wagner
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Violence

• There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Power
  • Silly
  • Caring

• I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Design

• This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

  

  Rachel

• Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Things
  • Rational

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Respect

• In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

  

  Stuart Pearce
  • Football
  • Goals
  • Utopia

• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Inspiration
  • Leadership

• I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Lovely
  • Grass
  • Colour

• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Gods
  • Monsters
  • Gaints