V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.”
“Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!”
“Virgin - I'm proud on you
Not Virgin - I respect You
Pregnent - Enjoy your blessings
Abortion - You had your reason
Miscarriage - Strong woman Indeed.
Infertile - Doesn't make you any less as of a woman.
Scars - You're still Beautiful
Fat/Skinny - You're Beautiful either way.
It's time to stop judging and start empowering one another. Nobody is perfect love your Imperfections ❤️”
“Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.”
“Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.”
“Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.”
“Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know, and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin. I think, you know, that, you know, that the companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.”
“VIRGINIA 1/20/2020:
The right to self defense is inalienable from the right to life. Weaken one and the other is devalued. Surrender your arms today and forfeit your life tomorrow.
It is by no coincidence that a morally bankrupt man is behind the violation of the 2nd Amendment in the State of Virginia: Governor Northam, a man otherwise known for his support for after birth abortion and the wearing of "black face." someone with a defective moral compass, who does not know the sanctity of life, can't very well be expected to know the value of defending it.”
“Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.”
“Virginia even passed a law in 1667 stating that 'the Conferrin of Baptisme doth not allow that Condition of the slave as to his Bondage or freedome," Thus, when Anglican missionaries arrived in Britain's New World colonies in the 1670s with the intent to convert those enslaved on plantations, they faced opposition and even violence from white colonists who wanted to keep Christianity exclusive to free white people.”
Source: Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
“Virginia, forgive me. I didn't mean to be so rude. It's just my cycle coming on. Once a month I get very irrational and angry, and I want to pick a fight with anyone who comes near me.”
Source: The 10th Kingdom
“Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.”
“Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.”
“Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in one scene. Where are those parts? I was talking to somebody about great actors: Morgan Freeman's name came up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I realized, there're no black actresses. Where's there a black actress who's been extremely successful in the past 10 years?”
“Virginia: Oh, you made it.
Tony: I was going to say the same to you. I've been here quite a while
Virginia: Really?
Tony: Yes, about an hour.
Virginia: I didn't know it was a race.
Tony: I didn't know that was a path.”
Source: The 10th Kingdom
“Virginia screamed, grabbing for the door handle and nearly throwing herself from the moving car.
James swerved to the side of the road, slamming on the brakes before she killed herself trying to escape. As it was, she flung herself from the car, falling to her knees and scrambling to her feet. Then she ran. Took off like a bolt until she rounded the bend and disappeared from view.
'Way to go, slick,' AJ said snarkily, climbing into the front seat. 'You ran her off.”
Source: Buried Secrets
“Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.”
“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.”
“Virginia wasn’t all cool intellect by any means. She had the warmest and deepest and most human of affections for those she loved. They were few, perhaps, and she applied alarmingly high standards, but her love and humanity were real, once they were given.”
“Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.”
“Virginia Woolf described in her fiction her chracters' pain in childhood way and linked it to their emotional lives as adults in a way that was ahead of its time. "It's a fallacy to think that children are unhappy... I've never suffered so much as I did when I was a child," says Richard Dalloway M.P., in The Voyage Out.”
“Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.”
“Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."”
“Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.”
“Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.”
“Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.”
“Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.”
“Virginians don’t belong in Maryland for the same reason Marylanders don’t belong in Virginia. When we meet, it should be in DC where everyone is the same kind of nasty: feds.”
Source: Bleed More, Bodymore
“Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.”
“Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?”
“Virginie had in haar leven nooit iets gedaan wat ook maar enigszins in de buurt kwam van werk, ze had altijd het oneindige gebied van nietsdoen en nonchalance verkend, en leek vastbesloten die roeping tot het eind toe vol te houden, maar zelfs als ze een werkpaard was geweest, hadden haar chagrijnige humeur en haar houding van infante haar totaal ongeschikt gemaakt om een taak te volbrengen die uitgaat van regelmatig contact met haar medemens, zelfs als die zo onbehouwen was als de vaste caféklanten.”
Source: Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
“Virginity came in with a vengeance as every budding patriarch suddenly realized his divine right to a vacuum-sealed, factory-fresh vagina with built-in hymenal gift-wrapping and purity guarantee.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“Virginity can be lost by a thought.”
“Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.”
“Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Virginity is something that can be offered to God.”
“Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.”
“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”
“Virginity, virginity, where have you gone, leaving me abandoned?
No longer will I come to you. No longer will I come.”
“Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.”
“Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.”
“Virgo is the smell of nature, but in a sexy way.”
“Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling.”
“Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.”