Victor Hugo Quotes

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Show

• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Like
  • Weird
  • Socks

• People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Advantage
  • Reach
  • Fought

• I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, 'May the Force be with you,' I always said, 'Force yourself.' … I'll say again then, 'The Force is within you. Force yourself.'

  

  Harrison Ford
  • May

• We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • World

• Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.

  

  James Madison
  • Country
  • Free
  • Sad

• Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • School
  • America
  • High

• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Real

• Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Feeling
  • Violence

• When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • Political
  • Die

• For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Evolution

• Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

  

  George Will
  • Party
  • Serious
  • Term

• I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Library

• A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Library
  • Generations
  • Witness