V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”
“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical tool belt and start building. It's time to turn those values into the strong, flexible protective walls of your Burnout Prevention Blueprint, otherwise known as: boundaries.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly”
Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West
“Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.”
“Valuing a business is part art and part science.”
“Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.”
“Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.”
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.”
“Valuing someone doesn't mean you have to undervalue yourself.”
“Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.”
“Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.”
“Valujet flight 592 crashed after takeoff from Miami airport because oxygen generators in its cargo hold caught fire. The generators had been loaded onto the airplane by employees of a maintenance contractor, who were subsequently prosecuted. The editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology “strongly believed the failure of SabreTech employees to put caps on oxygen generators constituted willful negligence that led to the killing of 110 passengers and crew. Prosecutors were right to bring charges. There has to be some fear that not doing one’s job correctly could lead to prosecution.”13 But holding individuals accountable by prosecuting them misses the point. It shortcuts the need to learn fundamental lessons, if it acknowledges that fundamental lessons are there to be learned in the first place. In the SabreTech case, maintenance employees inhabited a world of boss-men and sudden firings, and that did not supply safety caps for expired oxygen generators. The airline may have been as inexperienced and under as much financial pressure as people in the maintenance organization supporting it. It was also a world of language difficulties—not only because many were Spanish speakers in an environment of English engineering language: “Here is what really happened. Nearly 600 people logged work time against the three Valujet airplanes in SabreTech’s Miami hangar; of them 72 workers logged 910 hours across several weeks against the job of replacing the ‘expired’ oxygen generators—those at the end of their approved lives. According to the supplied Valujet work card 0069, the second step of the seven-step process was: ‘If the generator has not been expended install shipping cap on the firing pin.’ This required a gang of hard-pressed mechanics to draw a distinction between canisters that were ‘expired’, meaning the ones they were removing, and canisters that were not ‘expended’, meaning the same ones, loaded and ready to fire, on which they were now expected to put nonexistent caps. Also involved were canisters which were expired and expended, and others which were not expired but were expended. And then, of course, there was the simpler thing—a set of new replacement canisters, which were both unexpended and unexpired.”14 These were conditions that existed long before the Valujet accident, and that exist in many places today. Fear of prosecution stifles the flow of information about such conditions. And information is the prime asset that makes a safety culture work. A flow of information earlier could in fact have told the bad news. It could have revealed these features of people’s tasks and tools; these longstanding vulnerabilities that form the stuff that accidents are made of. It would have shown how ‘human error’ is inextricably connected to how the work is done, with what resources, and under what circumstances and pressures.”
Source: The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
“Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start”
“Valyria. It was written that on the day of Doom every hill for five hundred miles had split asunder to fill the air with ash and smoke and fire, blazes so hot and hungry that even the dragons in the sky were engulfed and consumed. Great rents had opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, entire towns. Lakes boiled or turned to acid, mountains burst, fiery fountains spewed molten rock a thousand feet into the air, red clouds rained down dragonglass and the black blood of demons, and to the north the ground splintered and collapsed and fell in on itself and an angry sea came rushing in. The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Valérie: "You know, you don't need to be a lesbian to be a feminist. Nor do you need short hair to be a lesbian. Or a feminist."
"Yes, but helps, doesd't it?" Astrid counters”
Source: Les Petites Reines
“Valójában, Szókratész, nincs ellenséged, csak te magad. Békélj meg magaddal, és nem lesz senki, aki legyőzhet. És senki, akit te kívánnál legyőzni.”
Source: The Journeys of Socrates
“Vamos a demostrar, con ayuda de la Teoría de la Información, que la evolución de las sociedades humanas es simplemente una extensión natural del desarrollo informático del Universo.”
Source: El Universo Antrópico
“Vamos a escribir nuestro destino.”
Source: Conjuro de noche y estrellas
“Vamos al rincón oscuro,
donde yo siempre te quiera,
que no me importe la gente,
ni el veneno que nos echa.”
Source: Bodas de sangre
“Vamos dotar uma espécie de inteligência complexa. Vamos atribuir-lhes almas dotadas de autoconhecimento. Vamos deixar os animais pensar, mas não demasiado. Não queremos que se ponham com ilusões de avaliar a própria existência ao mais elevado nível, o seu lugar no Universo e consequente audácia de presumirem que está em seu poder a determinação do próprio destino. E depois, de um momento para o outro, decidiu cessar a interferência directa e deixou-os entregues às probabilidades do livre arbítrio. Para mim, foi a última grande extinção. A da minha paciência.”
Source: A Cativa
“Vamos encarar: Estou apavorada e paralisada. Para começar, creio, temo por mim... o primeiro anseio ancestral pela sobrevivência. Chegou a tal ponto que vivo cada momento com terrível intensidade. Na noite passada, voltando de carro de Boston, deitei-me no banco de trás e deixei que as luzes coloridas viessem a mim, a música do rádio, o reflexo do rapaz que dirigia. Tudo isso fluía por mim com uma pontada de dor gritante... lembre-se, lembre-se, isto é o momento, este momento, este momento. Viva-o, sinta-o, agarre-se a ele. Quero tomar consciência profunda de tudo que considerava favas contadas. Quando a gente sente que aquilo pode ser o adeus, a pancada é mais intensa. Preciso ter algo. Quero parar tudo, a monumental farsa grotesca inteira, antes que seja tarde demais. Mas escrever poemas e cartas não parece facilitar muito as coisas. Os grande homens são todos surdos.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Vamos falar de hipóteses. Você entende o que é hipótese?” ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ perguntou.
“Sim, entendo.”
“Vamos supor que você tenha feito o que confessou.”
“Mas eu não fiz.”
“É só uma suposição.”
“Está bem”, disse eu. Apesar de sua alta posição, ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■ era o pior interrogador que já conheci. Quero dizer, do ponto de vista profissional. Ele saltava daqui para ali sem nunca se concentrar numa coisa específica. Se tivesse de fazer uma avaliação, eu diria que o trabalho dele deveria ser qualquer coisa menos interrogar pessoas.
“Entre você e ■■■■■■■■■■■ , quem era o responsável?”
“Depende. Na mesquita eu era o responsável, fora era ele”, respondi. As perguntas davam por certo que Hannachi e eu éramos membros de uma gangue, mas eu nem sequer conhecia o sr. ■■■■■■■■■■■■ , que dirá ter conspirado com ele como parte de um grupo que nunca existiu. Mas eu não podia dizer uma coisa dessas a ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ; tinha de dizer algo que me fizesse parecer mau.
“Você conspirou ou não com essas pessoas, como reconheceu?”
“O senhor quer a verdade?”
“Sim!”
“Não, não conspirei”, eu disse. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ e ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ tentavam me pregar todo tipo de peça, mas primeiro, eu conhecia todas as peças, e segundo, eu já tinha dito a
verdade a eles. Portanto, era inútil me pregar peças. Mas eles me puseram num infame beco sem saída: se mentisse, “Você vai sentir o peso da nossa cólera”; se dissesse a verdade, ia parecer bonzinho, o que os levaria a crer que eu estava ocultando informações porque aos olhos deles EU SOU UM CRIMINOSO e eu ainda não tinha como mudar essa opinião.”
Source: Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
“Vamos muchachos! Tenemos un mundo para construir.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Vamos ser honesto, não existe e nem vai existir uma teoria científica competível com as teorias da religião. Imagine, uma teoria que explica tudo que você aprende com 12 anos de idade, e usa pelo resto da vida. Einstein dizia que uma boa teoria é aquela que explica para sua vó. Nenhum cientista conseguiu fazer isso, e nem vai. A teoria mestre ocupa a mente de cientistas brilhantes e nada de achar a solução da equação de Deus. Não temos como competir com religião, e pronto. Nossas teorias demandam tempo para criar, e tempo para entender. Cada teoria passa por muitas mãos, e um único cientista não consegue entender todas as teorias. Dependemos um do outro, e estamos sempre melhorando. O trabalho do anterior forma o trabalho do novo, e confiamos nos nossos predecessores. Nossas teorias ficam mais complicadas, e precisamos de computadores e muitas cientistas para resolver e entender. Nenhuma teoria compete com o criacionismo, nenhuma teoria científica é entendível por uma pessoa de 12 anos, a não ser que tenha um QI de 200. Para nós mortais, cada teoria é uma vida de estudos”
“VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Get dressed. LAST SACRIFICE: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Lots”
“Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.)”
Source: Kiss of Broken Glass
“Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.”
“Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.”
“Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.”
Source: Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson
“Vampire porn does not go out of style.”
“Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.”
Source: The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
“Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.”
“Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.”
“Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.”
Source: The Radleys: A Novel
“Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare.”
“Vampires are a genre now.”
“Vampires are always going to be sexy.”
“Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.”
“Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.”
“Vampires are people too!”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Vampires are real! There are dead people walking among us who are so broken inside they can only truly feel whole by feeding on the life, energy, joy, and happiness of others, all the while taking great pleasure in the pain and destruction they purposefully inflict. The only defense from these vampires is to run away as fast as you can and never look back.”
“Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.”
“Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.”
“Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.”
“Vampires are such prima donnas.”
“Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.”
“Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.”
“Vampires are very sexy right now. It's kind of disgusting. It's kind of a bandwagon.”