Victor Hugo Quotes
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
Victor Hugo
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
Edmund White
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
Baltasar Kormakur
I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
Finn Jones
If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
Sachin Tendulkar
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
Wayne Newton
I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
Narciso Rodriguez
When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
Tammy Duckworth
You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
Frances O'Grady
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Oswald Chambers
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
Barbara Amiel
Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.
Bob Proctor
My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
Rabih Alameddine
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
Marie Antoinette
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
Victor Hugo
