Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.