V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”
Source: Faking It
“Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say”
“Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?”
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Very few people realize how dangerous the indoor environment can be to long term health.”
“Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising altitude are approximately 28 times higher than ground level.”
Source: Health Forensics
“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.”
“Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.”
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.”
“Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.”
“Very few people say no to the Grammys.”
“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility.”
“Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.”
“Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!”
“Very few people will push you from behind for you to go forward; most people will pull you from behind to prevent you from going forward! Be strong enough to pull the people forward who pull you backward!”
“Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.”
“Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.”
Source: Free Admission
“Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.”
Source: A Fortune to Share
“Very few persons have successfully transcribed the comic talents of a poodle into prose, whether typed or conversational. Something vital and essential dies in the telling of a poodle story. It is like a dim recording of a bad W. C. Fields imitator. My poodle, I am glad to say, does not meet a gentleman caller at the door and take his hat and gloves, or play the piano for guests, or move chessmen about upon a board, or wear glasses and smoke a pipe, or lift the receiver off the phone, or spell out your name in alphabet blocks, or sing “Madelon,” or say “Franchot Tone,” of give guests their after-dinner coffee cups. She is as smart as any of her breed; indeed she has taken on a special wisdom in what some would estimate to be her seventy-fifth, others her one-hundred-and-fifth year, as human lives are measured, but she has never been trained to do card tricks, or go into dinner on a gentleman’s arm, or to say ‘‘Beowulf," or even "Ralph.”
Source: Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Legends All
“Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.”
“Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.”
“Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.”
“Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten.”
“Very few recordings exist in which Hitler can be heard speaking normally. But in those that do exist, it's evident he possessed quite a warm, calm voice. It's a completely different tone from what he used in his public appearances.”
“Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.”
“Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.”
“Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.”
“Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.”
“Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.”
Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
“Very few things are unmanageable once they are distilled to their basic components.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.”
“Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.”
“Very few things in life matter.”
“Very few things should grow in the absence of light.”
“Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.”
“Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.”
“Very few US Americans can name a single political leader in Central America. We have the privilege of “forgetting” about these countries.
Yet US political leaders, parties, and policies are the stuff of everyday conversation in Central America. People there don’t have the luxury of ignoring or forgetting what is going on in the United States, because they know that US presidential elections, policy decisions, and economic developments are likely to deeply affect them.”
Source: Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
“Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.”
Source: Health Forensics
“Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.”
“Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.”
Source: The Piano Teacher
“Very few women who are my age are still selling records or making waves in the music industry (Sia wore a bag on her head and a wig to cover her face), and yet that's not because we no longer have things to say. Of course we do. I have so much to say and the experience to match it. It's because the media insist on focusing on a woman's age. The sooner we stop putting this ridiculous pressure on ourselves to be young forever and society learns to deal with the fact that women's faces will change as they get older, the better.”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!”
Source: Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel
“Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”
“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.”
Source: The Borrower
“Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.”
“Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important.”