Victor Hugo Quotes

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

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• It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Pain

• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Only

• A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron

• He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • All Things
  • Sees

• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Principle
  • Enjoyment
  • Ruling

• To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

  

  William Gibson
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Consciousness

• Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.

  

  William Goldman
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Miracle

• I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

  

  Bono U2
  • Decisions
  • Nervous
  • Heads Of State

• Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Eternity
  • Parts
  • Lacking

• You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Draft

• My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Wife
  • Fault
  • Relaxed

• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Handicaps

• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Guilty
  • Confession
  • Work Of Art

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Society
  • Movement
  • Disease

• He's been out running full speed, changing direction. As you look at spring, we've got to give him the ball enough so he stays sharp and stays healthy.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Running
  • Spring
  • Direction

• There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Human Heart
  • Reconstruction
  • Demolition