V Quotes
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“Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.”
“Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.”
“Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.”
“Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!'”
“Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.”
“Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!”
Source: Locations
“Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.”
Source: Locations
“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.”
Source: The Collected Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated): Dodo Trilogy, Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, David Blaize, The Room in The Tower, Paying Guests, The Relentless City, The Angel of Pain, The Rubicon and more
“Vern didn't believe Mam's adage about picking battles. Everything that could be contested needed contesting. She could wear opponents down by the sheer quantity of escalations.”
Source: Sorrowland
“Vern didn't know what she wanted. She was a girl made of aches and she flung her body at the world in the hopes that something, anything, might soothe the tendernesses.”
Source: Sorrowland
“Vern rotated the nightdress like clock hands – from six thirty till midnight – to read the hem label by the window’s grey light. ‘We’ve
been to the moon and we still can’t dye nylon or polyester.’
‘I haven’t been to the moon; have you?’ she said.
‘This is polyester?’ he said.
‘You should’ve been a woman,’ she said.”
Source: Oxblood
“Vern stowed away the titles of books like morsels she might snack on later. She liked being reminded of the incomprehensibleness of the world. There was more to life than Cainland, more to earth than its collected sorrows. There was wonder and awe and the allure of nothingness. No one had figured everything out, but there were people who'd made their home in the searching. If they could dwell there, so could Vern.”
Source: Sorrowland
“Vern thought of how much less lonely her childhood might have been had she been able to read.”
Source: Sorrowland
“Vernachlässigen von Urlaub ist Vernachlässigen von Erfolg, denn jeder Erfolg braucht eine angesammelte positive Energie!”
“Vernal Equinox
The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies
between me and my book;
And the South Wind, washing through the room,
Makes the candles quiver.
My nerves sting at a spatter of rain on the shutter,
And I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots
Outside, in the night.
Why are you not here to overpower me with your
tense and urgent love?”
“Vernet received his commission for this project in 1838, a year in which concessions for the construction of railroads were a subject of passionate debate, and many of the deputies were carried away by visions of the glorious future this new invention would usher in, typical of which was the speech of the director of bridges and railroads in which he proclaimed that, after the invention of the printing press, railroads represented the greatest advance in the history of civilization.
In response to this enthusiasm Vernet broke traditional rules of decorum in his enormous mural, combining classical figures and traditional allegorical emblems with products of the industrial revolution. In one section of his mural composition, usually entitled Le Génie de la Science (The genius of Science), a nude allegorical figure is seated in the foreground, one hand on an air pump, the other on an anvil, while a modern steam locomotive is driven toward a railroad tunnel in the background (see Figure 2-2). If Vernet had been limited to one symbol to characterize the social and economic reality of the July Monarchy, it is doubtful that he could have found a better one.”
Source: The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848
“Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.”
“Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.”
“Vernon was, perhaps, a lonely little boy, but he never knew it. Because, you see, he had Mr Green and Poodle, Squirrel and Tree to play with.”
Source: Giant's Bread
“Vero, disse il Gracco. Egli lo sapeva, e i morti glielo dicevano. Chi aveva colpito non poteva colpire di più nel segno. In una bambina e in un vecchio, in due ragazzi di quindici anni, in una donna, in un'altra donna: questo era il modo migliore di colpir l'uomo. Colpirlo dove l'uomo era più debole, dove aveva l'infanzia, dove aveva la vecchiaia, dove aveva la sua costola staccata e il cuore scoperto: dov'era più uomo. Chi aveva colpito voleva essere il lupo, far paura all'uomo. Non voleva fargli paura? E questo modo di colpire era il migliore che credesse di avere il lupo per fargli paura.
Però nessuno, nella folla, sembrava aver paura.
Aveva paura il Gracco? O Figlio-di-Dio? Scipione? Barca Tartaro? Non potevano averne. O poteva averne Enne 2? Non poteva averne. Allo stesso modo ogni uomo ch'era nella folla non aveva paura.
Ognuno, appena veduti i morti, era come loro, e comprendeva ogni cosa come loro, non aveva paura come non ne avevano loro.”
Source: Uomini e no
“Vero è che in tutte le cose del mondo, e le umane e le naturali, non vi sono coincidenze irragionate; ogni moto, ogni evento, ogni caso anche minimo che accade verso il cielo o sopra la Terra, e il volare d'un insetto o il germinare d'un'erba non meno che una guerra o lo scoppiare della passione nel cuore dell'uomo, tutti sono tra loro connessi come i congegni d'un ordigno impregnato di umana intelligenza; solamente quando saremo morti capiremo, con improvvisa maraviglia, la portata e forse la grande saggezza di tanti atti nostri che credevamo aver fatti per caso, e stimavamo spersi e ineffettuali nella gran costruzione della vita del mondo.”
“Verona has long haunted the English imagination.”
Source: 101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour: 1001 Unforgettable Works of Art
“Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.”
“Veronica," he said through clenched teeth. He went rigid, his thrusts shorter and tighter. "I want you. Longer than one more night..."
Using the rail for balance, Veronica rolled her hips over him. His fingers gouged into her backside as he held her, poised exactly where she needed to be.
"You have me," she said. "I'm yours.”
Source: Four Weddings and a Werewolf
“Veronica ran out to tell Amber the shocking news - and returned in less than a minute with another message for Yo-Yoji: "Amber says she was watching and she knows you got in detention on purpose," she said breathlessly. "Because you have a crush on Cass!" Cass's ears instantly turned red. Max-Ernest looked like he'd been hit by a truck.”
“Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.”
“Veronika, die Streberin der Klasse, hob die Hand und plapperte los, noch bevor der Lehrer ihren Namen zu Ende gesprochen hatte: »In dem Gedicht geht es um einen Vater, der sein krankes Kind mitten in der Nacht zum Arzt bringen will. Das Kind hat Fieber und sieht Dinge, die offensichtlich nicht da sind. Als der Vater endlich ankommt, ist das Kind in seinen Armen bereits gestorben.«
»Miserables Gesundheitswesen«, kommentierte jemand und alle lachten.”
Source: Himmelblau
“Veronika feared him. It was miraculous to her that she had come home, back to life. She thus loved Roman Maria with her huge and damaged love — and because she knew it would be the last love of her life, she threw her heart into its darkened fountain — her heart — passionate and wasted, fraught with wounds.”
Source: Others' Paradise
“Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them”
“Veronyka didn’t know the man who owned it would never return, thanks to a quiet knife in the dark delivered by Avalkyra’s steady hand.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“Veroorzakers van dergelijke narcistische krenkingen worden met de grond gelijkgemaakt en verwijderd uit het koninkrijk. Aantasting van hun grandioze ideaalbeeld betekent aantasting van hen als mens en vormt daardoor een levensgevaarlijke bedreiging voor narcisten.”
Source: De narcistische wereld ontvlucht
“Verovala sam u nešto. U život, u tebe, u decu, u nešto nepoznato što će biti lepo, u neku nadu, svejedno u šta. Starost je ružna najviše zato što nam uzme sposobnost da u nešto verujemo.”
Source: Ostrvo
“Verranica Welling, I love you with all my soul. I will happily be your king, if you will consent to be my love, my wife and my queen for all of our days in Doon and beyond.
This time, I didn't need to think about my answer. Yes, Jamie, Yes!”
Source: Doon
“Verrate nie alles auf einmal – es geht um die Dwell Time (sie müssen zurück kommen…)”
“Verrà il momento in cui nonostante tutti i dolori saremo leggeri, gioiosi e veri.”
Source: Correspondance
“Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)”
“Verrücktheiten können ganz normal sein, solange man sie selbst tut; beobachtet man einen anderen dabei, rümpft man die Nase, dreht sich rasch um und geht davon.”
Source: Die Fließende Königin
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.”
Source: Fancies Versus Fads
“Vers quoi s'échappent le blanc de la neige quand elle fond, le rouge d'un volcan quand il s'éteint, le pourpre de l'amarante quand elle se fane, le brun des cheveux quand ils grisonnent, l'azur du ciel quand fuit le jour ? Peut-être y a-t-il un paradis pour les couleurs ? Je suis sûr qu'elles y chantent, qu'elles tonnent et détonent, qu'elles s'y bousculent et s'y entremêlent. Et puis s'envolent. Et puis reviennent, à l'infini.”
“Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.”
“Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.”
“Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.”
“Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!”
“Versailles: The best I can set down is to say that the whole seemed, almost, to flow in its wondrous horizontal order, and its colours of pink brick and cream stone to rise up in one harmonous chord, as though it had been conjured there, not be any architect but by a composer of Music.”
Source: Merivel: A Man of His Time
“Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.”
Source: France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe
“Versatile Tangerine is striking enough to stand on its own and adds vitality to a printed pattern. Good natured and friendly, but with a tangy edge, this fun-loving color invites a smile.”
“Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.”
“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
“Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.”
Source: Commentary on the New Testament
“Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their deities. This is probably an allusion to the fact that Egyptians would often pray for the safety of their firstborn, particularly firstborn sons, as was the custom in many ancient patriarchal cultures. The death of the firstborn would be seen as a sign of the anger or perhaps the impotence of their gods. This is worth pondering when it comes to the death of Jesus as God’s only begotten, or beloved, Son. Would Jesus’ contemporaries have assumed his death was a manifestation of God’s wrath? Probably so. In any event, Yahweh is showing his superiority over the spirits behind the pagan deities, and thus we should not overlook the supernatural struggle that is implied to be behind the contest of wills between Moses and Pharaoh.”
Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper