Victor Hugo Quotes

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
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• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Night
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  • Challenge

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
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• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Friends
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• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
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  • Hurt

• I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • True
  • Want
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• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Reality
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• Advice? Look at your pay statements.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Culture
  • Rule
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• The language of ideas creates a different universe: a universe which has multiplied the monkey's vocabulary of forty words to the million words in the English dictionary.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Different
  • Words
  • Universe

• Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Question
  • Powerful

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Life
  • Heaven

• Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Believe
  • Information

• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Creature
  • Altars