Victor Hugo Quotes

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

Victor Hugo

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• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Working

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Greater

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • World
  • Religious

• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Hand
  • Band
  • Air

• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Education

• 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken.'

  

  Learned Hand
  • School
  • May
  • Church

• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Sorry

• No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Author

• Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

  

  Mariano Rivera

• The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • Time
  • Work
  • Law

• I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Time
  • Family
  • Guy

• I put pressure on myself.

  

  Chen Long

• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • She
  • Decision
  • Fate

• Go back to the Qur’an. Allah gives you directions on how to do the job. He is giving you example after example but Muslims are not reading the books. They rattle it off. They memorize it, they recite it beautifully, they put people in ecstasy when they recite. But WHAT ARE WE READING ? Are the sound, the melody and the voice, reward that we are reading for?

  

  Ahmed Deedat
  • Reading
  • Directions
  • Quran

• Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Clever

• In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Flower
  • My Mind
  • Old Age