A Quotes
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“A vagabondess has earth and salt to balance her air. Her lifestyle is not a romantic, Instagram-filter utopia, but rather gritty and smeared with sweat. A vagabondess is not a symbol of an ideal of a life. She is alive.
A vagabondess weaves magic into the everyday and touches the profound with her toes as she wanders—aimlessly, purposefully—through her inner landscape and the outer wilderness of the modern world. She unites nostalgia for a freer past and hope for a liberated future by living squarely in the present tense. For solo female travelers, the vagabondess is an attainable objective, not a holy grail. She is within easy reach, if only we look in the right place: inside.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“A vagina. Were you really that mystified there, or are you actually not sure?’
‘Sure about what?’
Goddamn, he needs to finish his sentences.
‘About the benefits of having a vagina.’
‘Look – I know the benefits, OK?’
I totally don’t. Currently it feels like an angry animal that wants to eat him, between my legs.”
Source: Addicted
“A vagrant is everywhere at home.”
“A vague and immense desire to create was in the air. Everyone claimed to be devoted to an artistic activity, or planned to be. All activities were equal, they agreed, and instead of painting or playing the flute, one could always create oneself through psychoanalysis.”
Source: The Years
“A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend”
“A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.”
“A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.”
Source: Three plays
“A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others”
“A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.”
“A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.”
“A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.”
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”
“A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You dropped
your sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under the
bridges.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“A valley provides us a place to walk, while a mountain provides us a place to climb. And if a walk never leads to a climb, it might have been better not to have walked in the first place.”
“A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.”
“A valuable lesson I'd impart to my ninth-grade self: "Resist the urge to cloak your true self in a veneer of pain-disguised confidence. Such a mask, though it might seem protective, can inadvertently distance you from the very individuals you cherish deeply. This path could ultimately pave the way towards feelings of desolation and despondency. Remember, embracing vulnerability is an inherent aspect of our human essence, a trait that can serve as a shield against the clutches of depression and the echoing ache of solitude.”
“A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.”
“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.”
Source: My own times
“A valuable woman can do many things, except for anything that does not add value to humanity.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A valuable woman can do many things, except those that do not add value to humanity.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A valuation, which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which really do not make much difference . . . since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.”
Source: The General Theory Of Employment
“A value added life is a fruitful life”
“A value is an end, as opposed to a means to an end, and offers an end to thinking uncomfortable thoughts that have no answer.”
Source: Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.”
Source: The Ethics of Identity
“A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.”
“a value stream is a series of processes that connect together and transform a customer request into a good or service that's delivered to the customer, which completes the request-to-delivery cycle”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“A vampire is a creature of total want, of pure appetite, an antithesis to our self-denial, and I find myself picking through the bones of the story about the tension between these two states. Appetite is a dirty word for women, a cardinal sin. For food and sex, yes, but also for power, for ambition, for violence. What is Carmilla but a woman unleashed on any limits on her appetites? Does it make her monstrous? Is what we celebrate in men always monstrous in women? Is it also not monstrous to stare ourselves, to kill out appetite until we embody a living death?”
Source: Hungerstone
“A vampire is a creature of total want, of pure appetite, an antithesis to our self-denial, and I find myself picking through the bones of the story about the tension between these two states. Appetite is a dirty word for women, a cardinal sin. For food and sex, yes, but also for power, for ambition, for violence. What is Carmilla but a woman unleashed on any limits on her appetites? Does it make her monstrous? Is what we celebrate in men always monstrous in women? Is it also not monstrous to starve ourselves, to kill our appetite until we embody a living death?”
Source: Hungerstone
“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”
“A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so.”
“A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful.”
“A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.”
“A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free.”
“A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-" "Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.”
“A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.”
“A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.”
Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private
“A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations”
“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”
“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”
“A various set of symptoms which are all part of the human condition.”
Source: Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia
“A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks.”
“A vast army of government employees [Central, state and local government] of around 20 million are taken care by the remaining 380 million of the workforce, which also meets the extortionate and rent-seeking demands of the government employees.”
Source: India Uninc.
“A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.”
“a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.”
Source: Emma