Victor Hugo Quotes

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Victor Hugo

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• Believe
• Human Law

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Patience

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Will
  • Essence

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • True
  • Leadership

• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Alien

• There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • America
  • Together

• Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Sun
  • Shine

• A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Important

• While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Truth

• After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.

  

  George Newbern
  • Job
  • House
  • Death

• I know Eddie would want the show to go on.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Want
  • Show
  • Eddie

• I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • Up
  • Writing

• I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Up
  • Chocolate

• However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Live
  • Man

• I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Believe
  • Human Law