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Come Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
- A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished…
- I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
- A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
- One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
- A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
- Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
- A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United…
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now…
- In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities…
- Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
- So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be…
- Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present…
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that…
- You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals…
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard