List of Topics starting with [V]

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be ...

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...

I would be dead now, if not for a vessel of pure belief.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

Return of love, more blest may be the view;As call it winter, which being full of care,Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.Sonet56

All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and ...

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo ...

A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and ...

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at ...

After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.

It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains ...

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite ...

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green

Every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about ...

Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, ...

This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on ...

Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change ...

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

Once you're using sides and sauces you're on the right track and you're also following the general principles about how to eat well in the ...

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was ...

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands ...

Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea ...

Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this." ...

Honey increases sperm count.""Oh, you're so full of it. There's no scientific evidence to support that ridiculous statement.""It's an auld Scottish belief.

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it ...

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain ...

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote?'I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years ... I don't know Kote''Expect disaster every seven years,' ...

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

A whale can injure another whale with its sonar. A whale can speak to another whale across sixty miles of ocean. A whale is as ...

They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses?

If you haven't carried a voice recorder in the past 72 hours to capture the sum of your brilliant quotes, you should reconsider the life ...

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that ...

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless ribs. I swallowed it whole. I ...

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are ...

Bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself

Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even ...

Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him. He can become ...

Me and Mike, ve vork in mine,Holy shit, ve have good time.Vunce a veek ve get our pay,Holy shit, no vork next day.

Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas ...

So you dared to walk into the lion's den."She smiled up into his intent dark eyes. "As it turned out, there was no danger.""No?" His ...

Some rules, boy, are meant to be broken. That is where the skill lies, of any true leader; deciding which rules should be broken and ...

To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

Finding your voice is something you have to keep working at. Your voice as a comic evolves the same way that you evolve. You have ...

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Losing your child is a very difficult situation to deal with. It is not something you get over; it is something you learn to work ...

I cried because I was so beautiful.

I'm gonna love you with all these scars, with this sexy-as-fuck- short hair. However the fuck you look, wearing a damn Glad bag if you ...

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you ...

Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with ...

We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. ...

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I think that everyone wants sexy hair, and when they think of sexy hair they think of volume - they don't think about flat, limp, ...

The gum is so minty in my mouth as I chew it, I can hardly inhale. It's like inhaling the steam off a block of ...

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius ...

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our ...

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on ...

I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is ...

It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." ...

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there ...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived." -Ragnar Volarus

The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all ...

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they're very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny.

Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their ...

I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it's not that I follow one specific track. It's sort of what I like. I love colors. ...

The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.

But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?""Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you ...

A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? ...

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has ...

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a ...

Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more.

She'd been pounding her location and thoughts into a device that would send those things to virtually any human with Internet access and yet looking ...

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leadsThe dancing Naiads through the dewy ...

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood ...

Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.