Victor Hugo Quotes

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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• Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Best
  • Teacher
  • Ever

• The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Spiritual
  • Brave
  • Honest

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

  

  Diedrich Bader
  • Work
  • Great

• I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Funny

• If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.

  

  Ayana Mathis
  • Jazz
  • Great Migration
  • Nation-Building

• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Napoleon