Top 74 Hugo A Go Go Quotes
#1. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
Victor Hugo
#2. I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
#3. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
Hugo Weaving
#4. In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
Victor Hugo
#5. Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse.
"Why? Because it gives you an excuse to manhandle me?"
He let go. "Slap his face instead."
"Ha."
"It will make him take you less seriously, and then he won't be expecting it when you knee him in the groin.
Courtney Milan
#6. Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo
#7. He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
Victor Hugo
#8. As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.
Victor Hugo
#9. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
Victor Hugo
#10. Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
#11. By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.
Victor Hugo
#12. It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.
Victor Hugo
#13. I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C.
Sean Hannity
#14. Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.
Victor Hugo
#15. The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
Victor Hugo
#16. We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man.
Victor Hugo
#17. He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain.
Victor Hugo
#19. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#20. It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
Victor Hugo
#21. I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
Hugo Weaving
#22. What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion ... if no one loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
#23. It's a tiresome matter to go to bed without supper; it is still less agreeable to have no supper and not to know where to find a bed.
Victor Hugo
#24. For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
Hugo Pratt
#25. Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.
Victor Hugo
#26. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#27. I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving
#28. I will garden on the double run,
my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
and work until my heart is short,
then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
from cramps and the lack of oxygen.
Richard Hugo
#29. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
Victor Hugo
#30. Hugo could smell the fresh scent of apples all around him, and he realized he'd never go to an orchard again without thinking of Erin being lifted toward that perfect apple and the smile on her face as she took a bite.
Posy Roberts
#31. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.
Victor Hugo
#32. A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?
Victor Hugo
#33. I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
Hugo Chavez
#34. A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
Richard Hugo
#35. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
Victor Hugo
#36. I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos.
Rich Sommer
#37. We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
Hugo Chavez
#38. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
#39. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Victor Hugo
#41. This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
Victor Hugo
#42. Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
Victor Hugo
#43. Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
Victor Hugo
#44. Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
Victor Hugo
#45. During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Victor Hugo
#46. For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
#47. I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
#48. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
Victor Hugo
#49. The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo
#50. What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
#51. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo
#52. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
#53. The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
Hugo Chavez
#54. Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions ... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.
Victor Hugo
#55. Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
Victor Hugo
#56. The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
Victor Hugo
#57. With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles ... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
#58. It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
Victor Hugo
#59. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
#61. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
#62. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Victor Hugo
#63. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
Victor Hugo
#64. To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
Victor Hugo
#65. To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
Victor Hugo
#66. There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
Victor Hugo
#67. The United States has a system of taxation by confession
Hugo Black
#68. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
#69. The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Victor Hugo
#70. I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
Hugo Chavez
#71. The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
Victor Hugo
#73. Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
#74. I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez
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