Victor Hugo Quotes

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Victor Hugo

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Boy

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honest
  • Seek
  • Number

• I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Like
  • Adult

• Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Start

• I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Military
  • Animals

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Evolution
  • Theory
  • Mental

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Culture
  • You
  • Military

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Write
  • Books
  • Read

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

• Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Today
  • Man
  • Learning

• Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Duties
  • Homeland

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • Angels