Victor Hugo Quotes

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

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• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Trying
  • Done
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• When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • God
  • Society
  • Understand

• She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  

  W. L. George
  • She
  • Man
  • Educated

• I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Live
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• There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Management
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• Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).

  

  Layne Staley
  • November

• The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

  

  David Jolly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Proud

• My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Job
  • Father

• Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Die

• I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Important
  • Space
  • Cleaning

• Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

  

  Anwar Sadat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Soul

• Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Equality

• I always have to have the new gadgets and stuff when they come out. I'm not really interested enough in learning how they work.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Work
  • Learning

• The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Deep

• One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
  • Success

• We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

  

  Wade Horn
  • Kids
  • Fighting
  • Couple

• Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Life
  • Labor
  • Recreation

• The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Heart
  • Prospect
  • Idleness

• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Idleness
  • Heaviest