Victor Hugo Quotes

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Future
  • Successful

• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • People
  • Action
  • Attention

• Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Technology
  • Training

• Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • High
  • You
  • Expectations

• He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Prejudices

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Children
  • Why

• I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Home
  • Business
  • Game

• I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • She
  • Style

• Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Game
  • Growing

• The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Men

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Moments
  • Evil
  • Challenge

• My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Grandmother

• I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • Time
  • Good
  • Cooking

• If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Grandmother
  • Begin
  • Civilize