Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Victor Hugo

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I want these people to be able to live in peace.

Carine Roitfeld

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

Abdullah Gul

The Turkish people are at peace with themselves and with their history,

Publius Tacitus

They made a wasteland and called it peace

Gary Jacobson

It makes sense there would be a letdown after impeachment. People are tired of scandals and want peace and quiet.

Katie Hoff

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Amar Bose

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Chuck Hagel

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

Chuck Hagel

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.

Chuck D.

They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.

D. H. Lawrence

If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

Anthony Hopkins

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Chuck Yeager

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.