V Quotes
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“Very funny, my lady. And that reminds me"---he pointed a finger at her---"no horse jokes."
He was making it too easy. "Ah, my lord, why the long face?"
"That's it!”
Source: My Lady Jane
“very funny my sarcastic friend”
“Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
“Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.”
“Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.”
“Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.”
“Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'”
“Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.”
“Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.”
Source: The House of Hades
“Very good laws may be ill timed.”
“Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.”
Source: Mr. William Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew
“Very good,” she lied. Zoe had learned not to burden loved ones with God’s unwanted children. She had come to America with her gigantic hopes, intending to save money and rescue the sisters who had once rescued her. She wasn’t trying to save the world--just them.”
“Very good things exhaust the senses through the mind, while mediocre things pummel the senses without ever reaching the mind.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.”
“Very good! Yes! Not true, but a very, very good lie!”
Source: Night Watch
“Very good. It was perfect.”
“Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.”
“Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.”
Source: Notebooks
“Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.”
“Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.”
Source: A Vicious Circle
“Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.”
“Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.”
“Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious, and the tragedy is deepened by the denial that we are sinners…The really unforgiveable sin is the denial of sin, because, by its nature, there is now nothing to be forgiven. By refusing to admit to personal guilt, the nice people are made into scandalmongers, gossips, talebearers, and supercritics, for they must project their real if unrecognized guilt to others. This, again, gives them a new illusion of goodness: the increase of faultfinding is in direct ratio and proportion to the denial of sin.”
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science”
“Very high altitude exposure is a significant risk to a fetus or developing child of sea level adapted humans.”
“Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage.”
“Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard.”
“Very high altitude workers at astronomical observatories are well on their way into Space without the radiation protective pressurized Space suit.”
“Very high altitude workers should be aware that if they become disabled by Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS), it is highly unlikely they will get government disability payments.”
“Very high altitude workers that have sea level adapted genetics are radiation workers.”
“Very high altitude workers were using medical oxygen to treat numerous health conditions that included fatigue, confusion, headaches, feeling faint and digestive issues.”
“Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.”
“Very honest, I hope. God, I don't know. I hope I'm fun, I hope I am a good time. Spontaneous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind. Dancing a lot of dancing. I insist upon dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. The more dancing, the better”
“Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.”
Source: The affluent society
“Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.”
Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009
“Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.”
“Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.”
Source: Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4)
“Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.”
“Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.”
“Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!”
“Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.”
“Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.”
“Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.”
“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”
“Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.”
“Very like the wind, our feelings are," Yoda said. It was something he'd repeated many times over the years Kantam had been training with him, and Kantam had never totally known what to do with it.
"The wind touches us. We experience it," Kantam said, finishing the teaching. "It is real. But it passes. So, too, do our feelings."
Yoda nodded. "But sometimes, there is a hurricane. The winds are so strong, they lift us. Carried away, we can be. Everything we know and trust, gone, hm? Then easy it becomes to give in to anger, aggression, hm? Fear."
"So I should stay?" Kantam knew that wasn't the right answer, that there wasn't one. But all these poems and metaphors just seemed a million light-years away, even as they hit home to what Kantam felt.
Yoda opened his eyes, met Kantam's worried gaze. "You must choose the Force. One does not fall into being a Jedi Knight by mistake, hm? Or because it is convenient! You must choose the Force, with your whole heart. To do this, you must learn, again, to listen. To hear the world, the world outside of your own emotions. Even when they are very, very loud, heh, a hurricane.”
Source: Midnight Horizon
“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
Source: How Writing Is Written
“Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings.”
Source: Good Wives