Top 100 Quotes About Vann
#1. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
Robert A. Caro
#2. Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn't understand him, but he didn't understand them, either. (197)
Tanner Colby
#3. You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
Hannah Kent
#4. Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied.
John Scalzi
#5. I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.
Sue Townsend
#6. So all of it - local and archived data - went up with the lab building. Vann glanced over to me with an expression that I suspect meant these people were sloppy.
John Scalzi
#7. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!
H. Beam Piper
#8. This is going to sound odd ... but a small part of me was happy, sitting with her there. I was thinking, now we've done everything together ... like the hard thing, as well as the fun things. We're an item, we're solid. We're together.
Kate Le Vann
#9. She has done this for Jason and will do more, she knows. Her brother dismembered at her feet. This is how the world begins.
David Vann
#10. There must be at least one god not filled with rage.
David Vann
#11. If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
Gerald Vann
#12. Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".
Vann Chow
#13. I came to realize that it hadn't really been up to me to chase after him. It had been Luke's choice not to stay
with me.
Kate Le Vann
#14. If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.
Vann Chow
#15. I don't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.
Kate Le Vann
#16. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
C. Vann Woodward
#17. Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.
Vann Chow
#18. The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.
David Vann
#19. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
C. Vann Woodward
#20. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
Gerald Vann
#21. Because falling in love, even when it's unrequited, is not something that happens to only one person. The other person can't help getting involved, whether they like it or not.
Kate Le Vann
#22. She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
Vann Chow
#23. The hardest part is being brave so that nobody knows that you are sad all the time.
Kate Le Vann
#24. There can be no god without desire.
David Vann
#25. If you look at something in the distance long enough, you eventually have to go there.
David Vann
#26. Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck.
David Vann
#27. It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.
Luther E. Vann
#28. I've just got to keep going and hope that one day, it starts to feel not quite as bad as it does now.
Kate Le Vann
#29. The truth hurts because it's the shit that everyone kept from you.
Kate Le Vann
#30. the best choice we have on the menu tonight.
David Vann
#31. Time is not the most valuable thing in your life, since you're not spending it wisely anyway.
Vann Chow
#32. And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
Vann Chow
#33. I didn't want to give him anything. I was quite happy without boyfriend trouble.
Kate Le Vann
#34. There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall heavily made up air hostesses, that I would come back for more given the steep price tag.
Vann Chow
#35. What would the world be like if men never ruled again?
David Vann
#36. Maybe I just left it too late, and things changed too much for us to go back to where we were.
Kate Le Vann
#37. Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.
David Vann
#38. We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We hope to distract them, keep them busy. Burial is a hope.
David Vann
#39. What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god.
David Vann
#40. Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.
Vann Chow
#41. Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life
Gerald Vann
#42. This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.
David Vann
#43. Entitlement is a foreign concept to me.
Vann Chow
#44. What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity.
David Vann
#45. Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...
Vann Chow
#47. When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil
Kate Le Vann
#48. Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
Vann Chow
#49. I'm scared of using the few memories I have and turning them into memories of memories, like songs you've played too many times, and you feel just a bit less excited by each time.
Kate Le Vann
#50. Cutting through layers,this labor like cutting through the illusion of self to find there was no core, only the layers.
David Vann
#51. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.
Luther E. Vann
#52. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#53. She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son.
David Vann
#54. I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.
Kate Le Vann
#55. Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.
Vann Chow
#56. Unrequited love can give you butterflies and tingly lips and lovely, dizzy days where you analyze every word of every sentence they've ever said to you ... but you cry a lot too.
Kate Le Vann
#57. When you've got a real boyfriend, everything stupid is okay, and everything scary feels safe.
Kate Le Vann
#58. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
Kate Le Vann
#59. I need to move on and take chances when
they find me. To be fearless even if it means getting hurt again.
Kate Le Vann
#61. Being brave is not a part of your
personality, it's your job. It's what you owe the people who love you.
Kate Le Vann
#62. Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable
David Vann
#63. Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.
Vann Chow
#64. He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.
Vann Chow
#65. Hearts don't really get broken, but if you practice too hard with them, they can get quite hurt. It feels like they won't get better, but they do.
Kate Le Vann
#66. If you never persisted, you will never succeed.
Vann Chow
#67. The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.
David Vann
#68. Why can't any common fuck be king?
David Vann
#69. Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.
David Vann
#70. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.
David Vann
#71. Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi.
Vann Chow
#72. To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
#73. If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.
David Vann
#74. When we talk now, we both know we've lost something, and I can feel us trying to fake it and make up what's missing. The faking makes me sad, and the sadness makes the faking harder to do.
Kate Le Vann
#75. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#76. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#77. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?
David Vann
#78. What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother's remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?
David Vann
#79. She left me at the worst possible time because I knew her enough to know I was completely in love with her, but she didn't leave me with enough memories.
Kate Le Vann
#80. Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
Gerald Vann
#81. Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.
David Vann
#82. Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.
Vann Chow
#83. If it had lips, we'd feel closer to it. All we need are eyes and lips, apparently, and we think we can say hello. I don't think I realized that before, how much we need the world to look like us.
David Vann
#84. We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.
David Vann
#85. Having something to look forward to changes everything. I've always needed a future. I can't live without one.
David Vann
#86. And only men could have invented the idea of a king.
David Vann
#87. A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.
Vann Chow
#88. I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like "Just Visiting" on the Monopoly board.
David Vann
#89. Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.
Vann Chow
#90. Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
#91. The regret, these two words were etched into my forehead, I was sure.
Vann Chow
#92. While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believe
that if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well in
my life.
Vann Chow
#93. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel. And the truth is, it may not be the same as how you feel.
Kate Le Vann
#94. It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.
Vann Chow
#95. I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be drinking tea or coffee anywhere. I would be sipping tap water from an old bottle and serving others tea or coffee in a cafe somewhere.
Vann Chow
#96. Because you can choose who you'll be with, but you can't choose who they'll become.
David Vann
#97. I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, the
only time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in the
Huang Pu river.
Vann Chow
#98. Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can't fit into but you promise yourself you'll diet for - you can't think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it.
Kate Le Vann
#99. Origins...They don't explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work.
David Vann
#100. Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.
David Vann
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