Vis A Vis Quotes

#1. It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#2. What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

Howard Jacobson

#3. The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Peter Bofinger

#4. To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.

Oswald Spengler

#5. I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!

Jean-Louis Murat

#6. It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

Daniel Kehlmann

#7. My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular ... That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.

Jack Nicholson

#8. I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

Glenn Gould

#9. We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

Rafik Hariri

#10. The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Juan Goytisolo

#11. America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Carlisle Floyd

#12. The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

Colson Whitehead

#13. I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

Henry Paulson

#14. What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#15. Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Yitzhak Rabin

#16. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#17. Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Alexis Carrel

#19. I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny,

Ellie Goulding

#20. We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

Richard M. Weaver

#21. Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

Isaac Newton

#22. The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Horace

#23. Si vis amari, ama," you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love.

Sierra Simone

#24. The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturae - the most healing power of nature - are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Rene Dubos

#25. Being a grand-kid, you can so easily regress. All the ages you ever were are all recalled by the grandparent in a shimmery love-haze, like those blurred faces on tv, in which identities have been disguised.

Joyce Carol Oates

#26. The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

Ovid

#27. Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis. The advance of science has removed the last chemical hiding place for the once so highly esteemed vis vitalis.

Hermann Emil Fischer

#28. Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt

Augustine Of Hippo

#29. How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

John Searle

#30. Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

Muhammad

#31. Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

Will Self

#32. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.

J.B. Salsbury

#33. Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another.

Baruch Spinoza

#34. Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.

C.G. Cooper