Victor Hugo Quotes

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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• Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Lie
  • Taxes

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Country
  • House
  • Everything

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I can't hold a grudge anyway.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Hold
  • Grudge
  • Anyway

• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Food
  • Just

• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • First
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Young

• I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Me
  • Religious
  • Right

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Good
  • Pain

• I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Country
  • Band
  • Rock

• Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Free

• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Better
  • Than
  • Perpetually

• Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

  

  Zachary Schomburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Live
  • Night
  • Eyes

• I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Europe
  • England
  • George Cockroft

• There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Philosophy
  • Protest
  • Finishes