Victor Hugo Quotes

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.

Victor Hugo

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• 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Children
  • Always
  • Two

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Political

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Want
  • Control
  • Employees

• I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • World
  • Support

• It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Important
  • Know
  • Yourself

• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Revenge

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Me
  • Goal

• In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Innovation

• What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Women
  • Country

• I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Souls
  • Guard