V Quotes
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“Vae Victis"
Written by R.J. Williamson
What gods hast thou, that bow before the might of mortal men?
Surrendered now in ignorance; enslaved before the pen
Of magistrates and potentates less powerful than thee:
What makers vested strength within the legs that bend the knee?
What then of their countenance, their handiwork to see?
Cry then! Cry out unto them and witness unto me!
What chains and shackles hobble thee – what burden giveth pause?
What fearsome power maketh thee unworthy of thy cause?
What of the faith and principles thou surely must despise,
To supplicate in deference before a throne of lies?
Count for me the years before the soul of freedom dies.
Art thou now a servant and a slave in thine own eyes?
What fools are we, who in false grace before accusers bowed
And in our hubris and our haste their tyranny allowed.”
“Vaga vaga vaga.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Vagabond Light (The Sonnet)
When the tide of realization comes,
Theories and concepts cause but decay.
In the kingdom of absolute oneness,
Stoneage constructs wither and fade away.
What am I gonna do with theories!
I'm no intellectual obligated to be a smartass.
I am but a fakir, a vagabond who knows nothing.
So I submit myself at the mercy of the lovers.
I'm tired of trying to be important to the shallow,
I'm tired of trying to make sense to the senseless.
Adjusting to prehistoric habits of a dualistic world,
The mind loses touch with its magical magnificence.
Let the light shine bright,
dim it not to suit the prisoners!
Does the sun come with a dimmer,
because its radiance dimwits cannot bear!”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Vagabond Poet
(Sonnet 1044)
No matter how much
they plagiarize my work,
I won't say a word to condemn.
No matter how much they
monetize solar energy,
you never hear the sun complain!
It's okay that limited minds
got to care about such matter.
What does the ocean care about
a few buckets of stolen water!
I am infinite, I am unbound -
Come, steal all I've got,
strip me of all my legacy!
I started out as a vagabond,
I'll gladly perish in vagabondcy.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Vagabond Poet (Sonnet)
Bi' gün değil, bugün,
bugün yaşamalı,
bugün parlamalı,
bugün uyanmalı,
bugün yürümeli.
Wear your wounds like crown,
not tomorrow, but today.
In front of your thunderous resolve,
intimidating clouds all fade away.
Where lips don't speak, eyes do -
where eyes don't speak, backbone do.
And once backbone has spoken, all the
militaries cannot render it untrue.
Poetry, my nationality,
words, my brethren.
To the world I'm monsoon,
for inside I'm barren.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“Vagare è l’unica risposta all’ansia dell’essere, la ricerca di qualcosa di cui nutrirsi, perché il cuore ha fame.”
“Vagava per i corridoi della biblioteca dell’università, in mezzo a migliaia di libri, inalando l’odore stantio del cuoio e della tela delle vecchie pagine, come se fosse un incenso esotico.
Certe volte si fermava, prendeva un volume da uno scaffale e lo teneva per un istante tra le sue manone, che vibravano al contatto ancora insolito con il dorso e il bordo e le pagine docili. Poi cominciava a sfogliarlo, leggendo qualche paragrafo qua e là, e le sue dita rigide giravano le pagine con infinita attenzione, quasi timorose di distruggere, con la loro rozzezza, ciò che avevano scoperto con tanta fatica.”
Source: Stoner: A special edition of the literary classic
“Vagheggiamo nuove vite altrove, senza accorgerci che quel sin troppo invocato "altrove", pensarlo come soluzione è illusorio. Non è viaggiare il rimedio a inquietudini che nulla hanno a che fare con la geografia, e tutto invece con la storia: non è spostandosi che quei sussulti troveranno acquietamento.”
Source: Buongiorno mezzanotte, torno a casa
“Vagina is the epitome of resilience.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Vagina Power (The Sonnet)
There's nothing special about growing balls,
In fact, man-sack is the definition of weakness.
If you wanna grow something, grow a vagina,
For vagina is the epitome of resilience.
There's an organism that goes through hell,
Quite regularly, yet stands strong and brave.
It is the source of all creation everywhere,
Yet all through history it's been kept as slave.
No love can surpass the love of a mother,
No care can surpass a sister's care.
Yet a society run by balls and bananas,
Makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.
Worship of balls is but a prehistoric mania.
There will be no balls without a vagina.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!”
“Vaginal tissue does not stretch out with use, no matter how much you use it or how large the penis or toy is that it’s used with. For comparison, think of your mouth and how it is stretched and manipulated every day, yet it retains its shape—the same goes for your vagina. But like any muscle, the PC muscles that surround the vaginal canal can get weaker with age and after giving birth. Doing Kegel exercises regularly can help keep the PC muscles from losing their grip and might make your vagina feel “tighter” around a penis if clenched during sex.”
Source: Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
“Vaginas beat penises every time.
They're like kryptonite.
Penises are defenseless against them.”
Source: Tangled
“Vaginas have never appealed to him: their cabbage-like folds, their long, hidden corridor. He craves the long thrust of the cock, its heady insistence, and the challenge of a body like his.”
Source: The Immortalists
“Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)”
“Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The aggressive enforcement of these criminal offenses opened up an enormous market for convict leasing.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Vagrants huddled in doorways, their hands tucked into their armpits, hats pulled down low, like sleeping birds. But they were city birds, dull in plumage and faded into their corners.”
Source: Ghost Talker
“Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”
“Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Vague goals produce vague results”
Source: The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.”
Source: Romola: In Two Volumes
“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”
“Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
“Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.”
“Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.”
Source: In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel
“Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.”
Source: Essays Before a Sonata
“Vagueness is the kingdom of the devil and it is as such on purpose." - On Vagueness”
“Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Vahdettin ve Atatürk'ün "devletin kurtuluşu"ndan anladıkları çok farklı şeylerdir. Vahdettin'in "devletin kurtuluşu" yöntemi, İngilizleri memnun etmek ve onların desteğini almak biçimindeyken; Atatürk'ün "devletin kurtuluşu" yöntemi, bütün düşmanlara karşı mücadele ederek tam bağımsızlığı elde etmek biçimindedir. Ayrıca, Vahdettin "devletin kurtuluşu" derken, aynı zamanda kendi tahtı ve tacını kastederken, Atatürk, "devletin kurtuluşu" derken, ulusun egemenliğini kastetmektedir.
Sayfa : 239”
Source: Cumhuriyet Tarihi Yalanları
“Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.”
Source: What the Body Remembers
“Vahşi atlar konusunda insanoğlunun yapması gereken en önemli şey onların vahşi atlar olarak kalmalarını sağlamaktır!”
“Vahşi hayvanlar ölüleri çekiştiriyor, karga sürüleri ziyafet çekiyordu. Timur’un ünlü kuleleri de bu ölüm tarlasının üzerinde yükseliyordu. Kellelerden kulelerdi bunlar. Osmanoğlu’nun en büyük şehzadesi Süleyman’ın tebaası işte orada yatıyordu.”
Source: Larende'nin Düşüşü
“Vai, visele celea ale tinereţii, visele primei iubiri, cum vin ele, ca apele de primăvară şi te fură, şi te învăluie, şi te duc la adînc, atît de adînc, încît, la un moment dat, ele devin esenţa vieţii tale, şi dacă ţi s-ar cere: visele sau viaţa, eşti gata să declari - de-mi luaţi visele, luaţi-mi şi viaţa...”
Source: Frunze de dor
“Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The fabric of her retracting skirt increased the protrusion of her legs. When she was in position, Vaida made a fine adjustment to achieve the desired view.”
Source: The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“Vaig fugir de tu, però no de la meua vida amb tu. La meua vida amb tu explica la meua vida posterior. És una cosa que vaig aprendre quan vaig deixar-te i tots s’obstinaven en què t’oblidara. No vaig fer-ho mai. Oblidar és mesquí. Si vaig assolir la serenitat va ser perquè vaig aprendre a ubicart-te amb precisió. També allò, per dolorós que fora, em va fer més persona.”
Source: Noruega
“Vaig llegir un llibre de ciència que assegura que les decisions les prenem abans que res amb el cor i després cerquem tot de raonaments que les justifiquen per fer-mos creure que les hem preses amb lo cap.”
Source: Gina
“Vaikka kaikki opiskeleminen on (tai ainakin tuntuu olevan) paskan jauhamista, niin silti henkisten asioiden miettiminen aivan kuin syventää lukiolaislikan mieltä ja henkisten propleemien ratkominen tuo naisen kasvoille kärsineen ihmisen henkeistyneen silmäluonnin, joka miellyttää ylipäänsä helvetisti fiksuja miehiä.”
Source: Rasvamaksa
“Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.”
“Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.”
“Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.”
“Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.”
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
“Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.”
“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”
Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields
“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”