Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.


Victor Hugo

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More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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ISAAC NEWTON
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come...
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Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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This is an idea whose time has come.
DAN GEER
It's an idea whose time has come.
MATT FARBER
Nothing inspires like an idea whose time has come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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JEAN COCTEAU
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
EVERETT DIRKSEN
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
Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.
RUTH ANN MINNER
But there's no excuse not to start doing it. This is an idea whose time has come.
DAN GEER
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO
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...
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La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
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N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
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L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
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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...
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
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I think it's an issue whose time has come.
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Anything that keeps us in the loop so we can track these jobs would be good for the city. It sounds ...
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Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
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Never to forget, your mind is greater than our mighty universe...
HELENE LAGERBERG
The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
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No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
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Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
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Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
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While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
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Truth can not be suppressed and always is the ultimate victor. So, we should tread on the righteous ...
YAJUR VEDA
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
BERNARD GOLDBERG
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
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Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
MIDRASH
It's a book whose time has come, I think is the main thing.
KITTY ROSATI
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It's an idea whose time has come and gone, ... Wal-Mart's 'Everyday prices' trump blue-light special...
JACK TROUT
We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
WARREN EYSTER
Fiercely pursuing an outcome whose time has passed is foolhardy.
STEVEN REDHEAD
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no gre...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Faith is better company than imagination for the wife whose husband fails to come home on time.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Ben is one of those players whose time has come. I expect him to have a big season.
BOB CAVANAGH
There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we...
JAMES TURRELL
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...
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This is an idea that should have come a long time ago.
DEBRA WILSON
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'

A man may do both,' said Ar...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The wealth of time is greater than the wealth of money
SUNDAY ADELAJA
She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE
Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bulle...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER
It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.
DAVE ANDREW
The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come.
CRAIG ROSS
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO
Giving an unexpected call, letter or gift has greater power than when it is expected.
LORRIN L. LEE
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO
It's a project whose time has come. We need to give it a serious try.
LAURIE COHEN
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
MICHELANGELO
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten tim...
EDWARD S. MARTIN
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. Ho...
CRAIG NEWMARK
Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city...
VICTOR HUGO
This has got to be the toughest sectional in the state of Indiana. Everybody can come out as the vic...
GREG HOLMES
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
CINDY SHEEHAN
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AMBROSE BIERCE
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than t...
BARTON GELLMAN
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully st...
DAVID HILBERT
In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
BRYANT H. MCGILL
To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
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She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
AMY ALCOTT
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
THOMAS TUSSER
Persons of virtuous deeds, whose deed has come to an end, become free from the delusion of dualities...
BHAGAVAD GITA
No one can roll back the time, everyone has to just keep pace with the mighty time.
ANUJ SOMANY
Investors have warmed to the idea that there is an inflation issue and are pricing in a greater degr...
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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
One just voice is greater than an army.
FERNANDO A. TORRES
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. BELL
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience,
CHARLTON HESTON
Poorer than the man without an idea is the man who is not seeking to have an idea
SUNDAY ADELAJA
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
BUDDHA
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any h...
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO