V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.”
“Very few can be trusted with an education.”
Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second
“Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.
Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.”
“Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.”
“Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.”
“Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.”
“Very few companies thank their vendors.
Money spoils the basic tenets of life.
8 Nov World Quality Day
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“Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.”
“Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.”
“Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.”
“Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.”
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the publication of the 'Origin of Species'; and who have watched, not without astonishment, the rapid and complete change which has been effected both inside and outside the boundaries of the scientific world in the attitude of men's minds towards the doctrines which are expounded in that great work, can have been prepared for the extraordinary manifestation of affectionate regard for the man, and of profound reverence for the philosopher, which followed the announcement, on Thursday last, of the death of Mr Darwin.”
Source: Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.”
“Very few good things come out of sentences that begin with ‘most girls.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“Very few great goals actually go in.”
“Very few have a good opinion of the English, their funny traditions or Englishness. I, personally, have the highest opinion of them..”
“Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.”
“Very few interviews are a conversation. It's usually a question and I have to answer for two minutes. By the end of the day, I kind of feel gross. It's like you go to dinner with a friend and then you get home and you're like: "Ugh, I dominated that conversation too much. I wish I let them talk more." That's how it feels for me every day I do press.”
“Very few letters-in-bottles in those hard times were not touching. Especially so were those letters-in-bottles which fathers sent home.”
Source: Little Women: Mermaid Edition
“Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.”
Source: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition
“Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.”
“Very few men attain enough of human knowledge to be fully aware how much remains to be learned, and of that which they never can hope to acquire.”
Source: The Sea Lions Or The Lost Sealers
“Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.”
Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
“Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.”
“Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films and I want to see whether 3 Idiots will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country...Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.”
“Very few of humans make it to long run. If you are fortunate, make it impactful and conscious. It's Life.”
“Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon”
“Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.”
“Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.”
“Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.”
Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities
“Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.”
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .”
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.”
“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
“Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.”
“Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.”
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Source: Partners in Crime
“Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.”
Source: Five of Maxwell's Papers: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.”
“Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“Very few of us lack superficial faults and we must rely on each other's kindness to overlook them.”
Source: Sanditon
“Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!”
“Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.”