People do not lack strength they lack will.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
- Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
- Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Best Quotes
- I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
- An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
- All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
- If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.