"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come." ― Victor Hugo Topic(s): God Tags: forces More From Victor Hugo "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time." "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." More In God "If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."― Marcus Tullius Cicero "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."― Voltaire "God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."― Frank Lloyd Wright