Victor Hugo Quotes

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.

  

  Billy Joel
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• Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

  

  Sandra Brown
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• External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Individual
  • Conditions
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• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Ignorance
  • Conversation
  • Fund

• The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

  

  Confucius
  • Tree
  • Golf
  • Distance

• I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fashion
  • Face
  • Expression

• When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Change
  • Characters
  • Abundance

• It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

  

  Hugo Black
  • Purpose
  • Belief
  • Constitution

• We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Exposure
  • Couples
  • Toxic

• I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

  

  Steve Blake
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  • Championship
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• I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  

  Steve Irwin
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  • Habitat

• The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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  • Surrounds

• If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.

  

  Ernest Wood
  • Satisfaction
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  • Bondage

• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  

  Addison Webster Moore
  • Revenge
  • Enemies
  • Hatred

• We got off to a little bit of a slow start but now we're playing good basketball, ... It's important that we keep it going and put ourselves in a good position for the playoffs.

  

  Alana Beard
  • Basketball
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• The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Motives
  • Responses