Victor Hugo Quotes

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Victor Hugo

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
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  • Hierarchy

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
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• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Question
  • Purpose

• It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Exercise

• Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.

  

  Lee Child
  • Suicide

• It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • World
  • Wish
  • Victory

• To LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: wherever you live and whatever the circumstances of your life, whether you are connected to a network of support or feel isolated and vulnerable, please know that you are not alone.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Logic

• I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Mean

• I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Speak

• The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.

  

  Mari Evans
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Free

• Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Children

• If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

  

  Eli Broad
  • People

• The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Faiths
  • Beauties Of Human