Quotes About Viviane

#1. To think Viviane was beautiful required a certain acquired taste. It was the kind of beauty perceived only through the eyes of love.

Leslye Walton

#2. When Constance Quakenbush smugly asked what she was going to do with her life, now that Jack Griffith was marrying that Laura Lovelorn girl, Viviane answered her with a soda fountain smile and a declaration: I'm going to fly.

Leslye Walton

#3. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.

Leslye Walton

#4. I love you, you know. Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.

Leslye Walton

#5. For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing. Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous.

Leslye Walton

#6. Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you"
"If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

Nick Bantock

#8. The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

Viviane Reding

#9. Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We excite ourselves with dark thoughts in plays, poems, novels, movies.

Ian McEwan

#10. Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Viviane Reding

#11. I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

Alice Walker

#12. And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Sarah Dessen

#13. Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable ...

Carl Sagan

#14. The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it:
Will you go out with me?
I think I like you.
I care for you.
I love you.
Marry me.
Goodbye.

J. Michael Straczynski

#15. If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

Viviane Reding

#16. If leaders don't know how to put their words into action, if they follow the wrong paths and take the wrong turns, then their sense of moral purpose can quickly give way to cynicism, frustration, and fading commitment.

Viviane Robinson

#17. It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he
or she
is traveling abroad.

Viviane Reding

#18. I expect Europe's top-level domain,. eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.

Viviane Reding

#19. To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

Joan D. Chittister

#20. Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman

#21. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

James Grant

#22. If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

Viviane Reding

#23. Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

Anne Jackson

#24. If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

Satya Nadella

#25. Everything was ruined, and everything was wrong, and not being able to shif shouldn've been the end of the world. But instead, for once, it was okay.
Cole's perspective

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

Viviane Reding

#27. Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Zainab Salbi

#28. It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

Viviane Reding

#29. Why can't I be High Lady as well?

Sarah J. Maas

#30. As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

Mary Karr

#31. Some people believe linking to Wikipedia is bad practice, but I disagree. I'd rather link directly to a topic that is continuously being improved than referring to part of a dead tree that is hard to obtain because it is either expensive or out of stock.

Jurgen Appelo

#32. The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

Jillian Hervey