Victor Hugo Quotes

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Victor Hugo

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• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Hate

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• I know there are thousands of images of me.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Images
  • Thousands

• There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • History
  • Help
  • Today

• That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Strange
  • Phenomenon

• Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Talking

• Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

  

  Kevin James
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Physical

• Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Picture
  • Blessing
  • Image

• I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Name
  • Slave
  • Praise

• A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Said

• Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • School
  • Kind
  • Sports

• Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

  

  Epictetus
  • Wisdom
  • Feel
  • Vulgar People

• I rarely think in words at all.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Think
  • Words
  • Rarely

• I will act as if I do make a difference.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Differences

• Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Life
  • Conscience
  • Antagonism

• There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

  

  William Powell
  • Purpose
  • Chance
  • Enemy

• Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Oil

• She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one but a helplessly romantic mother with an unhealthy obsession with Shakespeare would have considered saddling a child.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Eye

• Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that generally takes care of everything. Also, you can't be too finicky, since at tournaments you tend to eat at restaurants here and there. But, as long as you're eating sensibly, it's all good.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Long
  • Care
  • Healthy

• We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Talent
  • Posterity
  • Antiquity

• You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Never

• If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

  

  Victor Hugo
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