Victor Hugo Quotes

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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• My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fall
  • English
  • Word

• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Classic

• I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Best
  • Kid

• I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Conservative
  • Washington

• I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hair
  • Weird
  • Year

• A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Lost
  • Sound

• I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Travel

• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Shadows
  • Sorrows

• I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Painting
  • Fight
  • Imagine

• People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Kind
  • Knows

• The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Souls

• I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Consequence
  • Discoveries

• At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • British
  • Commonwealth
  • White Nation

• Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Satisfied

• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Power
  • History
  • Technology

• Success has killed more men than bullets.

  

  Texas Guinan
  • Success
  • Killed
  • Bullets

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between that reputation . . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.

  

  Elisabeth Guigou
  • Crime
  • Reputation
  • Charge

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

  

  Akhenaton
  • Food
  • Speech
  • Foreign

• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Civil War
  • Foreign
  • Warfare