Victor Hugo Quotes
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
Lana Parrilla
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
Barack Obama
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A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
Adolf Hitler
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
William Feather
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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.
Steve Lukather
Toto
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
Nolan Ryan
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
Hasan M. Elahi
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Jack Steinberger
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
Abel Ferrara
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac
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How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.
Carroll Quigley
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I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
