Victor Hugo Quotes

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

Victor Hugo

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• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Success

• Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Doubt

• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Support
  • Drunk

• images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Children

• Believing in the one thing That has gotten us this far - That's what love is for To help us through it That's what love is for Nothing else can do it Melt our defenses Bring us back to our senses Give us strength to try once more Baby, that's what love is for.

  

  Amy Grant
  • Help
  • Baby

• 'Better to make haste slowly than not at all,' said Amnir sententiously.

  

  Leigh Brackett

• Language may not determine the way we think, but it does influence the way we perceive and remember, and it affects the ease with which we perform mental tasks.

  

  David Crystal
  • May
  • Remember

• I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history?

  

  Aung San
  • Power
  • Heaven
  • Destiny

• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

  

  Stephen Marley
  • Voice
  • Oppressed
  • Reggae

• One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • Powerful

• Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Logic
  • Candle
  • Ignores