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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.


Victor Hugo

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VICTOR HUGO There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
EVERETT DIRKSEN Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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ISAAC NEWTON There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come...
VICTOR HUGO It's an idea whose time has come.
MATT FARBER This is an idea whose time has come.
DAN GEER An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Nothing inspires like an idea whose time has come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.
RUTH ANN MINNER Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO But there's no excuse not to start doing it. This is an idea whose time has come.
DAN GEER Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hop...
CHARLES SAWYER Anything that keeps us in the loop so we can track these jobs would be good for the city. It sounds ...
JAMES BENNETT Even the host of heaven can never stop an idea whose time has come,for it will crush every oppositio...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO It's been said that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come...but it's also equally important t...
DONALD LYNN FROST Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army ca...
WILLIAM JAMES Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...
E. O. WILSON Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
CHARLES SAWYER Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
THICH NHAT HANH The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO I think it's an issue whose time has come.
COLIN HANNA Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.
AMY NEFTZGER Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. GATES Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. GATES Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical ...
JOSE RIZAL The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imag...
JOHN CASSAVETES This has got to be the toughest sectional in the state of Indiana. Everybody can come out as the vic...
GREG HOLMES There are forces in the world whose soul is against the unity of the Slav peoples. Those forces, usi...
ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are...
STUDS TERKEL Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can con...
JAMES R. SMITH When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The M...
BILL GATES Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutil...
FATEMA MERNISSI Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez.
BILL NELSON The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
BERNARD GOLDBERG It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.
DAVE ANDREW The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. Ho...
CRAIG NEWMARK It's a book whose time has come, I think is the main thing.
KITTY ROSATI The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come.
CRAIG ROSS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come ...
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every...
JERRY GARCIA Why did Seattle make such a dramatic move? All of the positive forces are expected to come together ...
HESSAM NADJI The idea has been suggested that he wasn't a fast hunter, that he was a carrion feeder. I would desc...
SPENCER LUCAS We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES [So lucrative a proposition is this link with the Pops for RCA Victor that the label has just renewe...
KEITH LOCKHART It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the ...
CHEECH MARIN Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she stud...
JOE HILL We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to en...
THOMAS PIKETTY The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are ma...
ARTHUR HENDERSON I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone...
BILL CLINTON Last year's Nobel prize has not only done irreparable damage to all progressive forces, it has also ...
KNUT AHNLUND During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful for...
YVONNE PIERRE Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea...
BRIAN SELZNICK Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither...
JOHN BOYD ORR The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful differe...
JAMES JEFFREY The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is a...
HENRY MILLER God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They w...
BOB SHACOCHIS The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, b...
ALLAN MAYER Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generat...
SCOTT MCCLOUD The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
PAUL WATSON As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD When you are down to nothing, God and the universe are always up to something!!! Be strong in your f...
ANGIE KARAN He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be ...
MARGARET WERTHEIM Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone an...
ERNESTINE ROSE Things of the world are not in a ‘seed’ form; they are in a form of a ‘fruit’. One has come ...
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