List of Topics starting with [V]

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you!

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning ...

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the ribosomes ...

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I ...

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired ...

Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise. ...

It is curious how the weak-minded among us are wired like that, the way we turn subdued and silent when confronting real bullies and yet ...

Because love is worth it after all.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the ...

You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context ... Then you step in and read the text and then out again ...

The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be ...

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, ...

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and ...

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I never felt so small, so humbled, by the vastness of the universe and the fragility of life.

A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in ...

The dey of Algiers took the occasion of the War of 1812 to renege on his treaty obligations with the United States;

Retribution. In a way, by asking me to kill

I loved him in a way I doubt I will ever love another man, and I know that because I've hated him more than I've ...

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to ...

It involves no disrespect for Mrs. Truman to say that her daughter gets a bigger hand than she does,' observed Richard Rovere. 'This country may ...

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion - they're the strongest

Best advice ever: Drive slow in parking lots.

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call ...

An attempt at effortlessness is a paradox at the very least.

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived ...

On our way to the cafeteria, he took my hand in his, intertwining our fingers as we walked. He seemed so proud to be holding ...

I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew ...

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on ...

Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

There was something new in his expression, something Vaelin had never seen before and couldn't name. In later years he would see it in the ...

The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give ...

Dropped in from a possible future via a Timeslip, and was currently trying to mend his left leg with a pair of pliers and a ...

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

Find a voice in a whisper.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was ...

I cook anything but chitlins.

As I believe - I am, I can, I know.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Cat," said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.

Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questionsin the world, that is the one which irritates me most with itssimultaneous gesture ...

Life is not a spectator sport; it requires full pads and full participation.

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

So, my friend, I need you as I need a high place where I can breathe freely. I need to sit beside you, once more ...

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. ...

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.

Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without ...

The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm ...

In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken ...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

If I lost everything and had to start again, I would find myself a great network marketing company and get to work!

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.

Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of ...

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain

RBI guidelines are just that, guidelines. Not the law of the land.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

At some point in an unimaginably distant past some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief ...

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and ...

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do ...

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: ...

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive,

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself ...

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

The best books ... are those that tell you what you know already.

For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for ...

Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Ever so quietly, she inched closer to Vincenzo's corpse. Corpse. Such a nasty word. The whole business made her sick. Focus, Sophia, she reminded herself. ...

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than ...

Like, I happened to notice when I put these together that .

Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide the ...

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