List of Topics starting with [V]

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo

Verte was the kingdom's head sorceress, oracle, palace grump, and the only reason I hadn't died of sheer boredom.... One time, I blew up her ...

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next ...

I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going ...

True confidence blooms in the soil of a relationship with God, following His path rather than one's own, pursuing His truth rather than the world's.

When the Universe attains Versistasis, everything will cease to exist and be create in the perfected dual moment.

If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere

I point to the volcanic rock that forms the base of the forest floor, and say that if the trees can grow on such a ...

Consider yourself hugged. Virtual hug.I felt the virtual hug, warm and snug.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss ...

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought ...

Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the ...

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.

Pyrokinesis: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to generate or manipulate heat

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. ...

Ibiza is very close to my heart.

I know everything except myself.

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious ...

Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out ...

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not ...

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

I'd rather walk than drive a car. In Vancouver, where I am from, you can get to just about anywhere you need to go on ...

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is ...

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own ...

We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And ...

I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? ...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of ...

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, ...

The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes," he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, ...

Concern for the environment is a central tent of Islam, yet in contemporary debates over environmental issues there has been virtually no reference made to ...

But he had something else to cursehis own viscious folly, which now seemed as mad and unaccountable to him as almost all our follies and ...

Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put ...

For the first time since hearing about the Treaty of Versailles in detail, Mondaugen found himself crying. They'll drain his juices, he thought; caress his ...

I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had ...

The term vitamin was derived from vitamine, a word invented by Polish scientist Casimir Funk, who combined vital and amine to create "amine of life.

Milo was concerned for Vilenthe she had a point the words repeated in her mind what makes you think she gives a shit you?Just think ...

I hate ingratitude more in a manthan lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,or any taint of vice whose strong corruptioninhabits our frail blood.

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. ...

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk ...

L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.

Long live the New Flesh!

You see the clouds in the sky? I made that with Vapr!

This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my ...

It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was ...

Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority - his parent, his teacher - are not as all-knowing as they claim ...

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by ...

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should ...

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha

Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things ...

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to ...

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.To the latecomers are left the bones.

Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage its progress, or ...

Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted ...

I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic ...

And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator ...

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

From above, start with the privileged view.

This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.

Sex is a sacred act which sadly, over the past few decades, has been demeaned and demoralized until it means almost nothing to most people. ...

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of ...

I don't care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he's addicted to craps.

It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order to get a ...

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi ...

Money is not the goal so much as what you can buy with it.

I want to be the best, it's not about the ranking, it's about being consistent.

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads ...

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

How can she believe?" Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. "Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. ...

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of ...

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean ...

Religion gives inspiration to act well. Not only that, it gives inspiration to the arts and to many other activities of human beings.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to himvalar morghulis. ...

But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.

Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you""If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned ...

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in ...

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the ...