Victor Hugo Quotes

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Done
  • Medical
  • Surgery

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Fun

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • More
  • Roots
  • Beatles

• I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Friend
  • New York
  • Clothes

• What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Different
  • Ideas

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Communist
  • Horizon

• I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Up
  • Great
  • Singing

• Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

  

  Poe Ballantine
  • Today
  • Small
  • College

• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Time
  • Family
  • Hunting

• [T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Small
  • Equilibrium