Victor Hugo Quotes

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Victor Hugo

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• People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • Different
  • History

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
  • Yale

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • For Him

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Music
  • Protection
  • Copy

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Best
  • Impossible
  • Characters

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Single
  • Attitude
  • Surprise

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Real

• I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Stars
  • Wings
  • Butterfly

• As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • She
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Romantic
  • Dinner
  • Opening

• It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Microsoft
  • Digital workstyle

• Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

  

  Arlene Blum
  • Vision
  • Goal
  • Accomplish

• We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Regard
  • Bottled

• There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Regard
  • Curious