List of Topics starting with [V]

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.

At the deepest level of what we do as parents, we should hear the heartbeat of a loving, grace-giving Father who freely adopts rebels and ...

The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.

Ducks! Embrace me as your king!

The plain fact is that humans, one and all, are merely thieves at heart.

And perhaps,frozen somewhere with time,Our words will never cease to rhyme

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting ...

For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella.

I'm very picky in what I wear.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be ...

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.

This is how they are able to continue and endure.

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one ...

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - ...

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if ...

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

That's the shock, and the surprise, to a lot of repatriates: No one back home cares. There's an initial, shallow interest in what life is ...

Project Hollywood had reached a new nadir. MYSTERY:

Blackballed from guild roles for two generations, because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels. On

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!

I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's ...

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate ...

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, ...

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

Talent will take you miles;character will take you around the world.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe ...

Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. ...

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows ...

We did it, Baby," he said in a hushed voice. "I still can't believe you're my wife.""Believe it," I said, smiling.

Nonsense," Bridget said. "The secret to happiness is freedom - and the secret to freedom is courage.

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, ...

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can ...

On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I ...

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

And when you fall from that parapet,the sound you'll be hearing as you go down will be me,laughing my head off.

The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of ...

If they made it out of the well alive, he'd stay and fight for her no matter the cost. He wouldn't run away again, not ...

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

Wasn't a storm meant to destroy - but it was the perfect storm of God's purifying and refining grace.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole ...

In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of ...

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of ...

I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.''Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions.

You feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest - burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.

Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

Ranger was slouched on the couch, watching a ball game. Bob was beside him, his big shaggy orange Bob head resting on Ranger's leg.

I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have ...

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I ...

You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt."That might be but she felt like death. ...

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood ...

You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.

It was my duty to... Oh, hell. Of course, duty had nothing to do with it. I just wanted to get back at her and ...

Why anyone would ever pretend to be weak was beyond her. Lila

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

..."my wounded healer, my beautiful Archer.

Dave had been fun when they'd first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, ...

I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change ...

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task ...

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

Is this the message 'save yer own skin at all costs'? Because if that's the message, no wonder America's in the state it's in. Thank ...

Huff. "I need to renew my plates," he said. Irritation

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. ...

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

It's a weary, sickening sensation to wander without the need for sleep and never find what you're looking for. After a while you give up, ...

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, ...

We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

His shorts hung low and his sweaty, cut to within an inch of its life, pelvic V muscle, was giving a silent but clear invitation ...

Perhaps it is belief more than truth that helps us survive.

Can't a girl wear something pretty without you getting ideas of bedding her?" Naya reached up, putting her hand behind his neck to pull him ...

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that ...

It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

Lainey is hot in a prom queen kind of way and we used to be friends back in grade school, but that was two lifetimes ...

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I can't let you break my heart. I don't have much of it left.

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..

We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love ...

The silence accentuates the beauty of him. The beauty of this first boy of theirs.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're ...