Victor Hugo Quotes

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Victor Hugo

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• Possession

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• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • History
  • Dream
  • Always

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Money
  • Science
  • Mountains

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Like
  • Private
  • Meddle

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• 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
  • Couple

• I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.

  

  Taliesin
  • Earth
  • Universe

• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work
  • Soul

• Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.The orange flower perfumes the bower,The breeze is on the sea.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Guy
  • Sun
  • Sea

• The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth

• I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Fans

• Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science

• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Men
  • Long
  • Power

• It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Life

• My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Possession