Les Amis Quotes

#1. Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic

Victor Hugo

#2. If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission

Sunday Adelaja

#3. This novel was the author's gift to her brother-in-law, who had

Agatha Christie

#4. This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.

Victor Hugo

#5. Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Ben Jonson

#6. Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.

James Crumley

#7. At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace.

Victor Hugo

#8. Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.

Victor Hugo

#9. As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

Erma Bombeck

#10. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Eugene Field

#11. I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

Ian Somerhalder

#12. My big regret is that my brother and I didn't start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late - I was 27 when our first album came out.

Eleanor Friedberger

#13. Life is beautiful for those who take the risk to love and take the adventure to enjoy life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

Brett Hoebel

#15. Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.

Victor Hugo

#16. The Soviet "creative intelligentsia" - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole an even more unpleasant phenomenon than the regime which gave it birth.

Andrei Amalrik

#17. When you've seen the worst,
You appreciate the best.

Louise Penny

#18. Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Ban Ki-moon