Vehemency Quotes

#1. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Bernard Barton

#2. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.

J.D. Salinger

#3. It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Ovid

#4. I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

Steven Price

#5. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba's love. He plunged into the darkness of death, not fully knowing what awaited Him, confident that somehow, some way, His Abba would vindicate Him.

Brennan Manning

#6. My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you have to point to an apple and name it for me before I know there is such a thing--and the existence of a world of apples outside ourselves.

Walker Percy

#7. Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Etty Hillesum

#9. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

Sylvia Plath

#10. The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Jim Dine

#11. That's it. Be yourself. Be Isolde Brannick, and they will have no choice but to adore you, He reached out and took my hand, pressing a kiss to the back of it. I was too stunned to do anything but sit there, my hand limp in his.

Rachel Hawkins