V Quotes
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“Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.”
“Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.”
“Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.”
“Vain kesyillä linnuilla on kaipaus. Villit lentävät.”
“Vain kesällä täällä ihminen elää, mutta siunattu on myös talvi, valkoinen, hiljainen, puhdas...”
Source: Rasvamaksa
“Vain koska pyysit, hauska nainen.”
Source: The Crown
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author
“Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.”
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.”
“Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.”
“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”
“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!”
“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”
Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry
“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.”
“Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...
“Vainer you are, faster you fade.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings
“Vairaag is a state where one remembers the beatings that one has experienced.”
Source: Aptavani-6
“Vaisey looked like a startled earwig.”
“Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.”
“Vaishusmriti (The Sonnet)
Those few afternoon trips back from uni,
With her head on my shoulder, were utopia.
My stomach was bursting with butterflies,
But my lips could barely utter a word.
My shirt got seeped with her intoxicating scent,
But her heart was posted to another man's mail.
Yet how can you begrudge someone you once loved!
It's okay to lose your heart to the wrong people.
Hadn't she rejected me, I'd have ended up
yet another nobody in the sea of engineers.
When life shatters you to a million pieces,
Get up and give back life some middle finger.
If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Vajag izvēlēties grūtāko ceļu? Tās ir muļķības, ko sludina tie, kas nekādu ceļu nav izvēlējušies, kas ceļu nogājuši pa citu mugurām. [..] Es domāju, ka nevar runāt ne par vieglāko, ne par grūtāko ceļu. Jāizvēlas vienīgais ceļš. Tāds ir jāatrod, un vienīgi ejamais ceļš tad reizē ir pats grūtākais un pats vieglākais. Te nevar būt cita risinājuma.”
Source: The Cage
“Vajra sankalpa - firm conviction comes from the Vajra nadi. This nadi is the path of manifestation, through divine determination.”
Source: 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation
“Vakill's like Columbians sitting in a circle, my name has a dope ring to it”
“Vakit azaldıkça çoğalmam gerekiyor
Hemen yetişmeliyim kaçan taşıtlara
Yaşansın son bir anılar
Zaman yok bir daha"
demişlerdir has bir şairimiz. Anlayana.”
Source: Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı
“Vakna, Stå upp, o Modige Atlas!
Ta världen på din axel,
Förkasta allt som är ojust.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Vakna upp från döden och återgå till livet.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Vakna upp mina systrar och bröder, var modig, var samvetsgrann, var symbolen för hjältemod. Och före allt annat, var en människa. Glöm inte, vi är inte våra förfäder, vi är bättre, modigare, klokare - vi är nya människor, det finns inget vi inte kan göra.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Vakna, uppstå, adoptera världen.”
“Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo.”
Source: Valiant
“Val's upper lip curled as he wondered if Mrs. Crumb knew the meaning of the word fun. Most likely she dismissed it as something vaguely shameful and leading to sin- which, at the best of times, it was.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“Val set Séraphine before the roaring fire, but kept his hands on her because he'd learned his lesson well... and also because he liked his hands on her.
She glanced at the steaming bath and suppressed another shiver. "I should leave if you're about to take a bath."
"Why?" he asked as he slipped his sadly ruined purple velvet coat from her shoulders. It had cost more than she'd probably make in a lifetime and now stank of bacon and horses, thanks to her. He threw the sodden thing in the corner.
"You'll want your privacy," she replied nonsensically.
He looked into her dark eyes, amused, as he unhooked her chatelaine and laid it on a table. "When have I ever wanted privacy?”
Source: Duke of Sin
“Val tells Forbes: We ardently believe that that in the back of everyone’s minds is a wax figure of Paul Giamatti, a physical manifestation of something or someone deserving going unnoticed for too long. Maybe your Wax Paul Giamatti is your friend who deserves that promotion and is continually passed over. Maybe it’s that album you adored that didn’t even score a Grammy nomination. Or maybe your Wax Paul Giamatti you, every time you sell yourself short. In short, we didn’t know it then, but by the time we reached the end of the museum, his absence was not only felt, it was mourned.”
“Val turned, still naked, still impossibly beautiful. Only the gore spattered on his belly, chest, and arm, marred his perfection.
He walked toward her and she couldn't help it. She backed away from him.
He smiled.
Sweetly. Like a boy. The dagger still in his left hand. And caught her arm with his right hand.
"This is who I am, Séraphine. Naked, with blade and blood. I am vengeance. I am hate. I am sin personified. Never mistake me for the hero of this tale, for I am not and shall never be. I am the villain."
And he laid his lips over hers and pushed his hot tongue into her mouth and kissed her until she couldn't breathe and it was only later that she found the bloodstains on her dress.
Her lips had been sweet, like ripe figs, her mouth a cavern of delight. But her eyes- those dark inquisitor's eyes- had held only horror and disgust.
Val sipped his China tea the next morning and gazed out the window. The sun shone on his garden, giving the illusion of warmth, though his empty chest was ice-cold.
He could have explained to her that a razor-sharp blade was kinder than a hangman's noose. That death delivered in seconds with a few thrusts was preferable to a laughing, jabbering mob, gleeful at the jerking, agonizing execution.
But those saint's eyes would've seen the hypocrisy.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.”
Source: Possession
“Val was still her family—and would have been regardless of what that birth certificate said—but now Veronyka was an Ashfire. A royal line. Descended from queens.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?”
“Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“Valancy got up and dressed, with a deepening of that curious sense of freedom. When she had finished with her hair she opened the window and hurled the jar of potpourri over into the next lot. It smashed gloriously against the schoolgirl complexion on the old carriage-shop.
“I’m sick of the fragrance of dead things,” said Valancy.”
Source: The Blue Castle
“Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.”
“Valar Dohaeris. All must men serve.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“Valar Morghulis - All men must die.”
“Valdivia had to hold back the familiar mixture of sadness, rage, and revulsion to keep herself from shouting at the world in front of her. Of course, she had seen bad things before. But now, violence against women was a particular anguish, and the pursuit of their killers had become a personal mission.”
Source: Until Morning Comes
“Vale aquele velho adagio, e seja assim:
A Gentileza Gera Mais Gentileza, enfim.
Logo a gente faz um bem para alguem de fato,
E sempre tem alguem que ve e vai repetir o ato!”
Source: ACross Tic
“Vale, entonces tienes madurez emocional, eres curioso y tienes agallas, pero no eres el único. ¿Cómo te distingues de todo el resto de jóvenes brillantes? En primer lugar, tienes que forzar los límites de tu zona de confort dando constantemente visibilidad a tus atributos. Primera pregunta: ¿cuál es tu medio?”
Source: The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google