V Quotes
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“Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.”
“Very little about the way we eat is, in fact, logical.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find that this is overlooked because there is a common assumption the business executives have all the requisite cognitive skills they need when they come to work for the organization. The problem with that perspective is that it overlooks the fact that thinking skills can be learned and improved at any time during the course of a persons lifetime.”
“Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.”
Source: The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no
“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.”
“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
“Very little happens in my books.”
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”
“Very little in this world makes sense.”
Source: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series
“Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters”
“Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.”
Source: Still a Nicol: the best of Eric Nicol
“Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.”
“Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.”
“Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.”
“Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.”
“Very little of the eating that happens in the modern world is as simple as: feel hungry, eat food. The great challenge for most people is learning how to recognise when we have had enough.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.”
“Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.”
“Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.”
Source: Acacia: The War with the Mein
“Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.”
“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
Source: The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
“Very lovely indeed"
—Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.”
Source: The Slippery Slope
“Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.”
“Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.”
Source: Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology
“Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.”
“Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.”
Source: Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974
“Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.”
“Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to give them to the dominate racial group. So in that sense, there is a very similar experience with Indians.”
“Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.”
“Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.”
“Very much. Very much a melting pot. You don’t draw lines anymore. There’s no such thing as ‘bloody this’ or ‘bloody that’. There’s no such thing anymore. We all Aussies. And the Aussies respect us as Aussies. I am accepted as an Australian and I feel like one too. - Ibolya Cabrero-Kovacs, Hungarian Freedom Fighter”
Source: Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
“Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.”
“very nearly anonymous now
having recently turned five thousand
with the same wedge of yearning
lodged in my chest as ever
and getting accustomed to
surviving like a bramble very good
at growing anywhere you ought to
praise me for this trailing bloom”
Source: Falling Awake
“Very neat for a boy; always cleaned up his mess, no matter where he got it on me. He's Hispanic, so he's like, 'Now who's the wetback?' I'm like, 'Hey, still you. Get back in the kitchen, those dishes aren't going to do themselves.”
“Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.”
“Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?”
“Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”
“Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.”
“Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.”
“Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”