Victor Hugo Quotes

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Victor Hugo

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• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Love
  • Memories
  • Sense

• I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Space
  • Mission

• I view myself as a dealmaker.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Myself
  • View

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Mail
  • Viagra

• I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

  

  Om Puri
  • Life
  • Old
  • Grow

• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greatest

• I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Dance
  • Politics

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Life
  • Trust

• In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Beginning
  • End

• The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Agree

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • History
  • True

• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Important
  • Together
  • Want

• Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room.

  

  John Howard
  • Great
  • Party
  • Unique

• I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • History
  • Poverty

• Directors have to push me because I never start [high] and then need to be pushed down; I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Directors
  • To Be
  • Pushed Up

• You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Hope
  • Sunrise
  • Distress