Victor Giannini Quotes

Advice? Fail constantly. Because the word doesn't mean what you think it means, especially when you're an artist. I use the word artist to mean everything from songwriting to writing a novel to even writing video games. Anything that tells a story, which is almost any medium. Gotta take risks, you gotta go through multiple drafts which means you have to FAIL, a lot. So you won't always get the reaction you always want from every single person, so when you lose that fear of failure, when you stop even thinking of it as failure, and you push yourself farther, you'll take bigger risks, and eventually, after about six or seven hundred rejections, you'll find success. And you'll find a way of conveying what you really want to say, in the best manner. ~ Victor Giannini

We did what people do. We stood side by side and smoked our little passive aggressive wishes for death, and stared down at our glory days. And then we set the world on fire, for a dream that felt so real is nothing but a risk never taken. ~ Victor Giannini

Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible. My hero taught me that, and for once, I don't mean Batman. ~ Victor Giannini

You can't win a war. Someone else just loses. ~ Alexandra Christo

Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars. ~ Victor Hugo

We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions. ~ Victor Sheymov

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. ~ Victor Hugo

Errors are excllent projectiles ... Factions are blind men who aim straight ~ Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. ~ Victor Hugo

When do things change entirely you wonder? When do they get better? When will it be possible? It is possible now. You are built to open your fists and show me your palms and to pass food from them into the hands of others. You are built for comfort and for fire, for battle and for poetry and you are a child of my family and my family was made by the world. Here we stand in the dark now and I am old and you are holding my hand and walking me from the bed to the window. We are looking out at all of it, the wonder and the danger. There are voices and the sun blazes and everything is bright enough that if I were reading the letters on your skin, I wouldn't be able to parse them. Now look at your own hand and the wrinkles in them. Those wrinkles are what happens when you clinch your fists. You were born for this resistance, for this preparation, for this life. You were born to fight. ~ Victor LaValle

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift. ~ Victor LaValle

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. ~ Victor Hugo

Going through all this nonsense to reach someone in charge, this was the first time she'd ever been treated like, well, a patient. With rules that defied all common logic; people employed to help you who are unable, really, to even hear you; the sense that the system's goal is only to keep trouble contained. It's ~ Victor LaValle

210Suffering 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.
Suffering begets rage, and while the prosperous turn a blind eye, or nod off which is always the same thing as shutting your eyes, the hate of the unprosperous masses has hits torch lit by some malcontent or warped mind dreaming away in a corner, somewhere, and it begins to examine society. Examination by hate is a terrible thing. ~ Victor Hugo

Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it. ~ Victor Hugo

Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it's the one thing they can't make you pay taxes on. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ~ Victor Davis Hanson

I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish ... the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round. ~ Victor De Laveleye

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. ~ Victor Hugo

Do you permit it?" Enjolras ~ Victor Hugo

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~ Victor Hugo

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. ~ Victor Hugo

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice. ~ Victor Hugo

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Paying for a taxi ride using your mobile phone is easier in Nairobi than it is in New York, thanks to Kenya's world-leading mobile-money system, M-PESA.'1 This was the opening paragraph in The Economist's article of 27 May 2013, 'Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money? ~ Victor Kgomoeswana

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. ~ Victor Davis Hanson

{Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted. ~ Kingsley Amis

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake
let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self. ~ Victor Hugo

The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they've lost. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place. ~ Victor Null

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ~ Victor Hugo

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days. ~ Jack Johnson

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football. ~ Victor Cruz