Veronica Vain Quotes

#1. Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.

Elizabeth Alexander

#2. There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.

Brian Tracy

#3. I've been through so many different political races.

Mary Fallin

#4. A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me ... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

Jonathan Ames

#5. The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

Peter Thiel

#6. We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.

Ufuoma Apoki

#7. I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

Nick Clegg

#8. Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?

Alice Von Hildebrand

#9. I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

Gregg Allman

#10. I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

Veronica Lake

#11. It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

Dave Zirin

#12. Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.

Jon Stewart

#13. When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

Robert Nozick

#14. She didn't like gardening or cleaning, so she wasn't about to have 'shit that needed watering or dusting' around her place.

Jana Deleon

#15. And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

Veronica Roth