List of Topics starting with [V]

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men ...

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted ...

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability ...

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only ...

A lack of love:between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, ...

Sometimes other hearts have to break in order to keep your intact.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly. "A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you ...

Identifying with the results is very dangerous, especially for those trying to control the senses or practice celibacy.

Because most who are trying to put an end to injustice only think of the injustices they believe they themselves have suffered. Which means that ...

Faith is a journey

Cinder cast a look toward the road that would take her away from the palace, back to the safety of being an invisible girl in ...

Caspian: Yes, but be quiet now, my bella.Abbey: What does that mean?Caspian: Beautiful.

You ate the police?! I exclaimed.

In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you ...

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I ...

Let the prison library not only meet the recognized needs of the men, but inspire them in further efforts. The reading habit once firmly fixed ...

[Preston] Hotchkis had earned his position by representing San Marino, a tiny, rich, Anglo municipality south of Pasadena that had been tellingly named after a ...

A few words spoken beneath the moon, lovemay be, but I write your namein the celestial dust that lingersin the air, abovethe veilchenblau roses, callowand ...

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear ...

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Sometimes as I laid there with my Walkman and headphones, I'd stare at the closed door and know she was just across the hall. What ...

Be a victor, not a victim.

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington ...

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

Wake Me Up when September Ends

I don't think we can solve the outside problemsuntil we solve the ones within.

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give ...

We humans have an extraordinary ability to care about things beyond ourselves, to circle around those things with other people, and in the process to ...

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see ...

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

Niall: Help!Louis: Did anyone hear that?Niall: Help!!Louis: SOMEBODY NEEDS HELP! RAAH! (Pulls open shirt and has Superman shirt underneath) Superman is here!!

You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his ...

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals ...

In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. ...

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

Is not just any bint," he said. "This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana ...

And when you graduate and get a job and find the one woman who finally stays - who you want to stay - she won't ...

Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no ...

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You ...

If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants ...

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you ...

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

But now the shots began - not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

When you grew up in a small town ... obscurity was a luxury that didn't exist.

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

The tragedy of every religion is that it needs a church to survive.

My mother always said that you should share your troubles. If you let them out, then they are less likely to burden you, whereas if ...

I am a writer and I want to write.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, ...

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider L the Lord's acts of faithful love. u

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a ...

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I ...

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of ...

Nothing lasts forever, Neither bad nor good

Words often outlive the people who create them.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons ...

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling ...

We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very ...

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving.

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class ...

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - ...

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for ...

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Expediency often silences justice.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their ...

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we ...

I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge ...

Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

I think people do expect something a little weird to happen. Maybe they've seen something I did once on the Internet and expect that I'm ...

Perhaps the most tragic ignorance is that of responsibility.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage ...