List of Topics starting with [V]

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and ...

My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the 'possible,' while God is inviting me ...

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. ...

Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the ...

Fair Katherine, and most fair,Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier termsSuch as will enter at a lady's ear,And plead his love-suit to her gentle ...

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant faggot ...

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put ...

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

I've never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.

Oh, Vixus," I say with a sigh, keeping the tremble of anger and fear out of my voice. "Vixus, Vixus, Vixus. There are no boys ...

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all ...

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Since no two days are the same,we must be entering life's classroom when we wake up each morning

Daniel murmured something like yes, he wouldn't miss it,but he was clearly distracted. He kept looking away from the woman. His eyes darted around the ...

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, ...

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only ...

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings,Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is ...

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in ...

V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, ...

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of ...

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where ...

Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off of my dad ...

During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.

To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. ...

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and ...

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that ...

I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of this entire primary election. It is the most delegates awarded in a single night will ...

I really like the iPad. I think that's pretty cool.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience ...

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.

We will forever be vulnerable to the weaknesses in our own hearts and our selfish desires.

The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better ...

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

Being with you is the one thing that feels solid and real ... You're so full of color, so vibrant you never get lost in ...

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,Woman's a thousand steps behind.[Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen HausDas Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separatelyVeet (It's for Shaving your legs Only you don't Need A razor. It's with all the Girlycosmetic stuff)Vaselinesix pack, Mountain DewOne ...

I do not crave this But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

Our friends have left usPerhaps we never saw them, perhapswe encountered them when sleepstill brought us very close to the breathing waveperhaps we search for ...

I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and ...

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take ...

I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money ...

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition ...

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the ...

I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, ...

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always ...

The villagers waited silently. There is something about people with no hope for a better future in life. You can identify them from their expression. ...

As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical ...

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

Face says one thing. Body says another. I listen to the body. Keeps me alive.

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet.""Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and ...

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of ...

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a ...

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

Angry words didn't stop the world from turning round.

'Superbetter' looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren't any 3-d spaces to ...

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to ...

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Sympathy is the charm of human life ...

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which ...

This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's ...

Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ...

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet ...

It's not about something that inspires you, but it's about something that makes you think.

I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in ...

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position ...

Writing a check was easily done, and easily done with. It allows us to do "charity" while keeping at bay the inner tug that urges ...

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, ...

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen ...

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the ...

One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid

Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no ...

After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it. Overnight the bond market was transformed from ...

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't ...

Also want you to take vitamin E twice a day and vitamin C, baby aspirin, and a statin once a day. You

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...

In Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.

I am not stunted. I am vertically challenged. - Levet

Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.