#dl

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#idle #invisible #labor #man #thought

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. ↗

— Brit Hume

#alarm #badly #been #behaved #brits

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

The straight line is ungodly. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#straight #straight line #ungodly

It is idle to await unanimity. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#idle #unanimity

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it? ↗

— Evan Hunter

#been #bother #covered #enough #feel

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#am #being #being judged #feel #funny

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#because #becoming #central #climate #convinced