List of Topics starting with [V]

Sadly, there are many forces more powerful and devestating than love... Among them for example, the anger and jealousy of a spurned husband or lover. ...

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. ...

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

It didn't seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take ...

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

From kindness comes courage.

For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.

If you live for people's acceptance you will die from their rejection

Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. ...

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but ...

The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the ...

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable ...

Loyalty is the key to our survival. Without it, we are just like them.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Digital products are, for the most part, services that empower consumers to achieve something that they couldn't do before. Every screen must reflect your value ...

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, ...

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, ...

I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, ...

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, ...

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.

I'm not a poet - I'm a drifter in the arts.

I nodded in approval, turned around and opened the door, and stepped into the hall. I walked past the receptionist, smiling at her shocked face ...

Sometimes when you lose someone, it's at that moment that you realize how much they mean to you. And when that happens, and when you ...

All it wants is to explode.''Nice to have an ambition in life, I suppose.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to ...

Father Gregory laid a hand on his shoulder. "Sometimes life knocks us to our knees." His hand tightened briefly. "But that's a damn good position ...

Year by year I learn more about myself, and I think that confidence and honesty and just really being true to yourself is probably the ...

Yes, it's possible to get repetitive stress injuries from heavy computer or video game use. But they are also caused by musical instruments and by ...

If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right ...

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Some promises and time disappoint us

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, ...

The ability to kill someone is basically a mental stance, and not a question of physical means; a serial killer armed with a couple of ...

Until death do YOUR part.

I always look to the eyes; they seem to be the one honest thing about a person.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and ...

I have come to understand that it is far preferable to know that we are living our own destiny, a destiny which was authored by ...

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, ...

There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."Magnus glanced at Alec and ...

[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. ...

Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't do great things. It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Damn people who argued using logic. Talk about unfair. -Cat

Details are extremely important. A story without details is like an action movie without special effects.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful ...

What has happened to America's survival instincts?

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite ...

And being special is the best way of being different.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether ...

Be an unsinkable ship.' Basically, making yourself seaworthy is easier than trying to control the sea.

Human beings, for some reason or another, like symmetry. You leave a bunch of them next to a jungle for a couple of days and ...

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

She stood by the fireplace talking in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory ... Love.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and ... grace ... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

Irrespective of whether you are sexually active of not, being sexually empowered is a vital element of being able to create a society with zero ...

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is ...

It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models ...

I'm not a broken dove, I'm a sly fox." - Verona Rubelle

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of ...

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, ...

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

I've been talking about how electronic books will come, and how important they will be, and all of a sudden Stephen King publishes one. I ...

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than ...

I tell myself that some might be saved if I knew more.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a ...

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love ...

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can ...

Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to ...

I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' ...

I don't want to only ever meet you in the woods, even though I love this. I ... I gotta feel like there's something real ...

While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable ...

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line ...

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.