List of Topics starting with [V]

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors?

You're strong, you're fast, and you're smart.

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

Simon has the imaginaries, he will say.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

I love doing great entertainment, but I like the joke to be on me. I don't want to take advantage of some poor person and ...

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed ...

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, ...

Seek out the good in the bad,the happy in your sad,the gain in your pain,what make you grateful, not hateful.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

Him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not

Screw you, I don't hate you I just don't find any good reason to like you.

As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone ...

Everything. I have done everything you wanted ... You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening ...

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and ...

Acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between

Christianity without mission is like ice cream without frozenness.

A true lady is known by her conduct under trying circumstances.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ...

Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be ...

I knew him, you know, your beloved Novron. Ah, but yes, you already discovered that little fact. Here's something the books won't tell you. He ...

There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring ...

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose ...

Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Milwaukee has more bars and more churches per capita than almost any other city in North America. I'm not sure if there's a relationship in ...

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere ...

May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, ...

The age of the book is almost gone.

So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter ...

The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've ...

Always continue to climb.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

Oh, honey. Just because I can't buy what he's selling doesn't mean I can't window shop. Besides there's not even a remote chance he's interested. ...

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put ...

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.

I'd have a few on and off, but the commitment was always more on the girls' part than on mine, to be perfectly honest. So, ...

Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep my spine in ...

Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!

I have a martial arts background and I'm very athletic. So I think if I can find a film where a female is a badass ...

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work ...

A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked ...

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single ...

There are no black-and-whites' is itself a black-and-white statement.

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents ...

Why should i blame world, if i get wrong to recognize true and real faces of people

How have I never noticed she only required praise to find me acceptable? wondered Sophronia, not quite realizing that this, too, was a mark of ...

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere ...

Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of the disease turning ...

Jealous is ugly, it will betray you in a heartbeat.

Ingra had already planned a trip for Agres and Mitra they had to go Area III, Supre and according to Ingra there they would find ...

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for ...

For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship ...

Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

God is the driver of my life and decider of my future.

I burned so long so quiet you must have wonderedif I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance ...

What you are not the vibration of, remains invisible to you.

Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, ...

I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - ...

Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It ...

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have ...

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality.

For the health of my mind, body, and spirit, I choose to walk with:Gratitude not Envy;Faith not Worry;Confidence not Fear;Kindness not Anger.

That our path was hard does not mean it was not also right, nor that it is not paved with blessings.

If it's IN you to climb you must there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills they can't breathe properly in the ...

For now Valkyrie remembered where she had seen that name before. In the Book of Names, in that final column. Next to Stephanie Edgley, next ...

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life ...

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like ...

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.