List of Topics starting with [V]

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading ...

The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.

Imagination ... is not a Disney theme park, but is a incredible force that when unleashed ... can help greatly better humanity.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the ...

Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been ...

There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his ...

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...

They moaned in unison as she slowed her movements. Sitting in Ryan's lap, his hands on her waist, she slowly opened her eyes."That was amazing." ...

In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting ...

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

The only person you resent is yourself.

Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change ...

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Upon the delicate chin you turnedVenus had set her cloven sign.Like embers seen through darkest wineYour unextinguished tresses burned.

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as ...

You bit me? (Stryker)We use what we have. (Zephyra)That's such a girl move. (Stryker)But it works. Maybe if you fought like a girl and not ...

Be courageous requires not only, on the one hand, a watchful mind; it requires, on the other hand, also, the indispensable strong will to act.

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by ...

I think it may truly said that if you are tired of San Francisco, you are tired of life.

Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple ...

Within this Mine two Stones of old were found, Were this the Ancients called Holy Ground; Who knew their Value, Power and Extent, And Nature ...

What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not?

Her lips were suddenly on his again, and he lost his balance and almost fell backward off the bench. Now that he'd finally been able ...

Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness ...

Meanwhile, the reality is that living longer in our ever-more-unequal society is very much a class thing: life expectancy at age 65 has risen a ...

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

They would praise me too if their lips weren't locked in fear.Lucky tyrants - the perquisites of power!Ruthless power to do and say whatever pleases ...

The degree to which we are able to understand God's revelations depends on the level towhich our mind has been developed.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is ...

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but ...

Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she's different, I told myself.

My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type ...

Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, ...

Chess is a test of wills.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as ...

It's so damned humiliating.

Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during ...

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's ...

Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude of veneration toward ...

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living ...

But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no ...

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

The Bible says not to worry so I don't. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the ...

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of ...

I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. ...

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come ...

Just what does a virgin wife have to do to get debauched? Teena really wanted to know. Offering herself hadn't worked. Telling her husband he ...

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

I have deep feelings of depression ... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and ...

But honestly, I don't really want to get to know most people anyway. Most people are boring assholes. Secretly I am better than everyone.

It strikes me that in this Hell a man of sufficient will, a man willing to sacrifice anything, might bend the world itself around his ...

My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.

Social isolation. Some people lack the feeling of belonging to others. They feel isolated, as if they were cut off from the rest of the ...

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; ...

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress ... But I don't really have a perception issue. I've ...

The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

Evolution is blind to the future

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the ...

There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

Faith is a holy flame.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

If God does not exist, then there is an infinite regress.But infinite regresses are impossible.Therefore, God must exist.

And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with ...

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle ...

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

Love is as much an enemy as it is a companion.

I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let ...

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage ...

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single ...

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of ...

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist; he has not ...

Christ," he mutters to the ceiling. "She crosses her fingers behind her back and offers to pinky swear, like a kindergartener. Chase is fucked.

A curious paradox here: hand in hand with the political rebellion of the age went a certain omnisexual freedom, but that meant you could sleep ...

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn't like to watch television. I'm just the only one who confesses

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: ...

Still looking at me, Kellan lifted the microphone to his mouth. "I'd like to formally introduce you to this beautiful girl at my side, Miss ...