Victor Hugo Quotes
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
Quotes to Explore
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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You can only get down with Flavortown if you believe in Flavortown.
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Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
