V Quotes
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“Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.”
“Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.”
“Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.”
Source: Sermons 273-305
“Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Venerdì sera avete rubato la vita di una creatura eccezionale, l'amore della mia vita, la madre di mio figlio, ma non avrete il mio odio. Non so chi siete e non voglio saperlo. Siete anima morte. Se quel Dio per quale uccidete ciecamente ci ha fatto a sua immagine, ogni proiettile nel corpo di mia moglie sarà stata una ferita al cuore per lui.”
Source: Vous n'aurez pas ma haine
“Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.”
“Venezia ha di buono che è un sedativo perfetto. Nella mia visione i canali veneziani raccolgono le paure e i fantasmi delle persone e li fanno scorrere, grazie alle correnti, in tutta la laguna; così facendo ciclicamente ritornano sotto i nostri occhi per mostrarci chi eravamo tempo prima e farci prendere coscienza di quanto siamo cambiati.”
Source: L'amara filosofia dell'amore
“Venezia, la campana Marangona batte il tocco delle sette, in cima al campanile di San Marco. Se all'ora del vespro ti capita di restare solo lassù, se nel posto più frequentato del mondo riesci a trovare anche un solo istante di solitudine, allora sentirai il muezzin, dall'altra parte del Bosforo. Da Venezia, l'Oriente è una pulsazione vicinissima. Stasera dal campanile sento perfettamente Istanbul, con la notte che scende sui minareti, la luna crescente, il favoloso Altrove dell'Asia. L'Anatolia, il Mar Nero, il Caucaso degli astuti armeni e dei misteriosi azeri.
Se questo mare - scrive il croato Predrag Marvejevic - è un golfo veneziano, e se quel golfo è un riassunto del Mediterraneo, allora quella geografia di canali, isole e barene non può essere che il riassunto del mondo, un concentrato di diversità. Niente come l'Adriatico, in questi giorni di guerra ed esodi di massa, ti dice che l'Europa altro non è che una penisola dell'Asia e che lì, a due passi, oltre le isole dalmate, comincia un altro mondo, un mondo che preme da millenni. Una terra inquieta, madre di tutte le migrazioni.”
“Venezia mi piace perché sembra un grande salotto disordinato in cui niente di realmente brutto può succedere. Un posto dove ci sono le idroambulanze non è un posto serio. In senso buono: non è un posto dove la gente soffre e muore, ecco. Ci sono le idroambulanze! È come se ti portassero in ospedale con il tappeto volante: è chiaro che quella storia della morte è tutta una fesseria.”
Source: Dieci inverni
“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.”
“Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.”
“Venezuela has changed forever.”
“Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.”
“Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.”
“Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.”
“Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.”
“Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.”
“Venezuela is independent. It's diversifying its exports to a limited extent, instead of just being dependent on exports to the United States. And it's initiating moves toward Latin American integration and independence. It's what they call a Bolivarian alternative and the United States doesn't like any of that.”
“Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.”
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.”
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.”
“Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?”
“Venga quien venga a convencerme o no,
una parte de mi vida siempre duele,
deteniéndose en mi pecho.”
“Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”
Source: British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
“Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.”
“Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.”
“Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.”
Source: Goddess Tithe
“Vengeance clouded my mind. It would have consumed me, had it not been for the wisdom of a few strangers, who taught me to look beyond my instincts. They never preached answers, but guided me to learn from myself.”
Source: Renaissance
“Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
“Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.”
“Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.”
Source: Small Wonder
“Vengeance doesn't taste quite how you imagine it will, even after twenty-five years. It leaves a mark.”
“Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.”
“Vengeance for a father slain, or vengeance for a kinsman in the wider sense, was often enough in those unruly times the means whereby youth showed its right to a seat in the home. But to regard honour as solely and exclusively in the sign of slaughter leads after all to a too restricted estimate of life. More was demanded of a well-born youth than merely to be a slayer of men. He claimed his place, and held his place in the family by his generosity, hospitality, helpfulness or readiness to take up the cause of kinsmen and fugitives, by nobility of manner, and magnificence. And eyes were watching from every side to see that he filled his place in every respect. The place he had to fill was the broad, spacious seat which his fathers had judged necessary for themselves.”
Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
“Vengeance has no foresight.”
“Vengeance has no rules. It has no heart, no conscience, no dignity, and no true allies.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)”
Source: Dance With the Devil
“Vengeance is a human right.”
“Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.”
“Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.”
“Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!”
Source: Space Viking
“Vengeance is disappointing, always.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.”
“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.”
“Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.”
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA