V Quotes
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“Vengeance is never an ideal means to deal with any situation.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Vengeance is not the point: change is.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct”
“Vengeance is primitive; which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.”
“Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.”
Source: The Wednesday Wars
“Vengeance is the outer shell of a blade which carries the core named Justice.
Justice is the wind that decides Vengeance’s course.”
“Vengeance is without foresight.”
“Vengeance. It's an ugly pursuit that encompasses many sins.”
Source: Kingdom of the Feared
“Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)”
“Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.”
Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer
“Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!”
Source: Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
“Vengeance was not his to wield, but he certainly wished it was.”
Source: Crown
“Vengeance was one step closer.”
Source: Weapon
“Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.”
“Vengeful and grateful feelings appear to have evolved precisely because they are such useful tools for helping individuals create cooperative relationships, thereby reaping the gains from non-zero-sum games.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Vengeful and grateful feelings appear to have evolved precisely because they are such useful tools for helping individuals create cooperative relationships, thereby reaping the gains from non-zero-zum games.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.”
“Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.”
“Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury.' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.”
“Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy”
“Vengo huyendo de nada porque nada queda ya de lo que alejarse.”
Source: Momentos que se esfuman para crear otros
“Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)”
“Veni, Vidi, Vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered).”
“Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia”
Source: Faking It
“Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.”
“Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .”
Source: On Evil
“Veniamo tutti da un funerale, non solo io che ci sono stata per davvero; tutti abbiamo perso qualcuno e sappiamo quanto lunghissimo e ingiusto sia il tempo davanti a noi, il tempo senza quella persona. Il tempo che cominceremo a contare anno dopo anno, a partire dalla perdita.”
Source: Addio fantasmi
“Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.”
“Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.”
“Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.”
Source: Venice
“Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world's attic, there's another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it's Cardiff.”
Source: Table talk
“Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.”
Source: The big orange
“Venice is all sea and sculpture.”
Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925
“Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.”
“Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.”
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
“Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.”
“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”
“Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.”
“Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
Source: Venice observed
“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.”
“Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.”
“Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken belly and exposed ribs encaging a heart too weak to scream.”
“Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.”
“Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.”
Source: Death is a Lonely Business