Victor Hugo Quotes
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Quotes to Explore
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
Gary David Goldberg
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Ingrid Betancourt
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Nancy Gibbs
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You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
Larry Wilmore
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
R. Kelly
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In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
Jack Ma
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
Patrick Modiano
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
Hans Zimmer
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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
Edie Sedgwick
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I didnt at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and its a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. Its very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.
Sam Raimi
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
Yann Martel
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
Ben Jonson
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
Ludwig von Mises
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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
J. L. Austin
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Bodhidharma
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
Seneca the Younger
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo