V Quotes
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“Vives en un mundo rodeado de reglas y normas y ¿qué ha ocurrido? Fíjate en el estado actual de la humanidad. Es un mundo neurótico, un gran manicomio. Es el resultado de todas vuestras normas, idealismo, perfeccionismo y moralidad. Es la consecuencia de vuestros mandamientos... el mundo se ha convertido en un reducto de neuróticos, en un inmenso manicomio. Y aún tienes miedo a las llamas del infierno. Es un círculo vicioso.”
Source: Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy
“Vivete la vostra vita, quella che meglio vi corrisponde senza diventare preda dei luoghi comuni legati al successo. Siate voi stessi, profondamente, e sarete felici. E' questo il fine ultimo della vita. Otterrete una soddisfazione che nessuno potrà rubarvi.”
“Vivi alla luce del sole o morti in fondo al mare”
Source: Inferno Blu Cobalto (Collana Storia di un pirata Vol. 1)
“Vivi and Heather take them out for bubble tea. There are no actual bubbles. Instead, he is served toothsome balls soaked in a sweet, milky tea. Vivi orders grass jelly, and Heather gets a lavender drink that is the colour of the flowers and just as fragrant.
Cardan is fascinated and insists on having a sip of each. Then he eats a bite of the half-dozen types of dumplings they order- mushroom, cabbage and pork, cilantro and beef, hot-oil chicken dumplings that numb his tongue, then creamy custard to cool it, along with sweet red bean that sticks to his teeth.
Heather glares at Cardan as though he bit the head off a sprite in the middle of a banquet.
'You can't eat some of a dumpling and put it back,' Oak insists. 'That's revolting.'
Cardan considers villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them.
Jude stabs the remainder of the bean bun with a single chopstick, popping it into her mouth and chewing with obvious satisfaction. 'Gooh,' she gets out when she notices the others looking at her.
Vivi laughs and orders more dumplings.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Vivi blows a noisemaker. “Here,” she says, passing out paper crowns for us to wear.
“This is ridiculous,” I complain, but put mine on.
Cardan looks at his reflection in the door of the microwave and adjusts his crown so it’s at an angle.
I roll my eyes, and he gives me a quick grin.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Vivi blows a noisemaker. 'Here,' she says, passing out paper crowns for us to wear.
'This is ridiculous,' I complain, but put mine on.
Cardan looks at his reflection in the door of the microwave and adjusts his crown so it's at an angle.
I roll my eyes, and he gives me a quick grin. And my heart hurts a little because we are all together and safe, and it wasn't something I'd known how to want. And Cardan looks a little shy in the face of all this happiness, as unused to it as I am. There will be struggles to come, I am certain, but right now I am equally sure we will find our way through them.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Vivi minha juventude dentro dos sonhos de mulheres deslumbrantes.”
“Vivi minha juventude nos sonhos dos outros.”
“Vivi picks stalks of ragwort that grow near the water troughs. After finding three that meet her specifications, she lifts the first and blows on it, saying, 'Steed, rise and bear us where I command.'
With those words, she tosses the stalk to the ground, and it becomes a raw-boned yellow pony with emerald eyes and a mane that resembles lacy foliage. It makes an odd keening neigh. She throws down two more stalks, and moments later three ragwort ponies snort the air and snuffle at the ground. They look a little like sea horses and will ride over land and sky, according to Vivi's command, keeping their seeming for hours before collapsing back into weeds.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Vivia em Lisboa, ia ao cinema e lia livros. Nos tempos livres, trabalhava.”
Source: A Carne De Deus
“Viviamo in un'epoca di autismo sociale in cui la gente non capisce perchè dovrebbe considerare l'impatto delle proprie azioni sulla collettività.”
Source: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
“Viviamo in un’epoca in cui si è titolati a vivere solo se perfetti. Ogni insufficienza, ogni debolezza, ogni fragilità sembra bandita. Ma c’è un altro modo per mettersi in salvo, ed è costruire, [...] un’altra terra, fecondissima, la terra di coloro che sanno essere fragili.”
Source: L'arte di essere fragili: Come Leopardi può salvarti la vita
“Viviamo la vita sempre proiettati nel futuro, sempre a dire farò, sarò, diventerò. Fingiamo di essere immortali e poi un giorno incontriamo la morte diventiamo pazzi e il resto dei nostri giorni lo impieghiamo per trovare una spiegazione che non c’è.”
Source: Il mio angelo segreto
“Viviamo nel ricordo di chi ci ama”
“Viviamo nell'attesa permanente di un estraneo a cui consegnarci mani e piedi. A cui saremmo capaci di sacrificare gli affetti più cari, se necessario. Anche quando siamo in malafede. Anche se sappiamo benissimo che al momento opportuno ci tireremo indietro attaccandoci alla più ignobile delle scuse. Conta però il momento in cui siamo disposti a tutto. E tutto significa, papale papale, tutto.”
Source: La donna di scorta
“Vivian Carlisle happened to her, like an avalanche or tsunami, as sudden and unforgiving as natural disaster. That was the thing about nature, though. It was frightening, dangerous, unpredictable–yes, all that. It was also inspiring. Even Beautiful.”
Source: Truth and Measure
“Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.”
Source: Searching for Grace Kelly
“Vivian, look!’ chirped Kate, looking up at the amber skies. ‘It’s a sundog!’
Vivian stared into the waking light of Christmas dawn and saw not one, but two rising suns.
‘They’re rare, these. Must be the low-hanging ice crystals creating an echo. A mirror to the sun.’
Like an enormous blade of Æbe’trax, the parhelion had parted the sky in two sectors – one small and made out of dawn, the other large and moulded by nightfall. Each side was dominated by its own mirror-sun, strung across the low firmament like two Christmas baubles.
Vivian squinted. The larger sun was grazed by a shadow.”
Source: The Book of Chaos
“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been invented. All houses were twisted out of shape, to say the least. Windows either too large to open or too small to make a difference peppered the city in places one would never dream of having one.
The walls were mostly cast in brickwork by the kind of stonemason whose day job was financial advising. Skewed walls with more bricks than mortar, knotted chimneys keeping the smoke inside and cupping rooftops whose main purpose was to gather rainwater – Solidago had it all and more.
As the oldest civilization of the cosmos, Alarians might have been excellent at healing, philosophizing and weaving into the fabric of reality, but they were very poor city builders.”
Source: The Weaver of Odds
“Vivid are memories
We most wish to forget”
“Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.”
“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”
Source: Killosophy
“Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.”
“Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.”
“Vivien(ne) is depicted so often as the femme fatale, the black widow, the vampire.
Yet Tom seems bolder, more vital, more alive as she declines, Jaunty in top hat and cane outside Faber & Gwyer.”
Source: Heroines
“Vivien (spelled the same way as Vivien Leigh, lucky thing) was quite possibly the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen. She had a heart-shaped face, deep brown hair that gleamed in its Victory roll, and full curled lips painted scarlet. Her eyes were wide set and framed by dramatic arched brows just like Rita Hayworth's or Gene Tierney's, but it was more than that which made her beautiful. It wasn't the fine skirts and blouses she wore, it was the way she wore them, easily, casually; it was the strings of pearls strung airily around her neck, the brown Bentley she used to drive before it was handed over like a pair of boots to the Ambulance Service. It was the tragic history Dolly had learned in dribs and drabs- orphaned as a child, raised by an uncle, married to a handsome, wealthy author named Henry Jenkins, who held an important position with the Ministry of Information.
"Dorothy? Come and put my sheets to rights and fetch my sleep mask."
Ordinarily, Dolly might've been a bit envious to have a woman of that description living at such close quarters, but with Vivien it was different. All her life, Dolly had longed for a friend like her. Someone who really understood her (not like dull old Caitlin or silly frivolous Kitty), someone with whom she could stroll arm in arm down Bond Street, elegant and buoyant, as people turned to look at them, gossiping behind their hands about the dark leggy beauties, their careless charm. And now, finally, she'd found Vivien. From the very first time they'd passed each other walking up the Grove, when their eyes had met and they'd exchanged that smile- secretive, knowing, complicit- it had been clear to both of them that they were two of a kind and destined to be the very best of friends.”
Source: The Secret Keeper
“Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.”
“Vivienne [Westwood] and Malcolm [McLaren] use clothes to shock, irritate and provoke a reaction but also to inspire change. Mohair jumpers, knitted on big needles, so loosely that you can see all the way through them, T-shirts slashed and written on by hand, seams and labels on the outside, showing the construction of the piece; these attitudes are reflected in the music we make. It’s ok not to be perfect, to show the workings of your life and your mind in your songs and your clothes. And everything you do in life is meaningful on a political level. That’s why we’re all merciless about each other’s failings and why sloppiness is derided.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.”
“Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.”
“Vivimos como queremos y nos quejamos,
en lugar de,
vivir como pudieramos y agradecer”
“Vivimos con las elecciones que hacemos. Y todas esas elecciones, a veces
aparentemente insignificantes, afectan a todos y a todo lo que nos rodea. Nos amamos y
nos lastimamos. Sin embargo, siempre hay una persona a la que incluso la magnitud del
dolor no disminuye la intensidad de su amor.”
Source: For Fallon
“Vivimos descubriendo y olvidando
esa dulce costumbre de la noche.
Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última.
(Our life is spent discovering and forgetting
that gentle habit of the night.
Take a good look. It could be the last.)”
Source: Selected poems
“Vivimos en la época de la premeditación y del crimen perfecto. Nuestros criminales ya no son aquellos jovenzuelos desarmados que invocaban la excusa del amor. Por el contrario, son adultos y su coartada es irrefutable: es la filosofía, que puede servir para todo, hasta para transformar a los criminales en jueces.”
Source: The Rebel
“Vivimos en un constante proceso de reprogramación”
Source: Libertad para Gente Inteligente: De la cognición a la acción
“Vivimos en un mundo de mezclas. El mundo transita a través de nosotros por medio de la comida, los libros, las imágenes, el resto de las personas...”
Source: What I Loved
“Vivimos en un mundo donde día a día nos vemos obligados a ocultar lo mejor de nosotros mismos.
Si te detienes a pensarlo, es muy triste.”
Source: El fuego en el que ardo
“Vivimos en un mundo que se adueña y dispone del cuerpo de las mujeres, un mundo de dominación masculina desde el punto de vista económico, cultural e ideológico. Desde el culto a la belleza hasta los actos de mayor barbarie, como las mutilaciones genitales o los ataques con ácido, la forma más arraigada de control de las mujeres por parte de los hombres pasa por el sometimiento de sus cuerpos.
La emancipación de la mujer pasa pues por la liberación de su cuerpo.”
Source: Manifiesto FEMEN
“Vivimos en un planeta complicado, rico en organismos de una vasta variedad, incluyendo los virus, todos interactuando de forma oportunista, y aunque existen 7.000 millones de personas, el lugar no se ha hecho a nuestra conveniencia y para nuestro placer.”
Source: Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias
“Vivimos en una era en la que la verdad es selectiva. A voluntad.”
Source: Polypticon, Part I: The Joint Political-Informatic Effort Project
“Vivimos en una sociedad absurda y perversa en donde el ofendido siempre perdona, pero el ofensor nunca se excusa.”
“Vivimos entre libros, hemos tenido la libertad de elegirlos y la posibilidad de descifrarlos en una era en que la instrucción fue (casi) universal. No ncesitamos ser monjes ni damas de la nobleza y si pertenecemos a una cofradía no es la del poder ni la del dogma, simplemente hemos sido elegidos por los libros a temprana edad. Bendito sea un privilegio desinteresado, no esgrimido para someter a los diferentes,”
Source: Fantasmas en el parque
“Vivimos vidas prestadas, así que úsala mientras puedas. Para que después no te arrepientas.”
“Vivimos y nos relacionamos a base de "trending topic”
Source: Bailar con la soledad
“Vivir, amigo, es irnos muriendo de a poquito, con aguardiente o sin él.”
Source: El desbarrancadero
“Vivir con decencia sigue siendo una de las formas más elegantes, y más valientes, de estar en el mundo.”
Source: LA ELEGANCIA DE QUIENES SÍ: Historias reales de personas que eligieron estar a la altura
“Vivir consiste en construir futuros recuerdos.”
Source: El Túnel
“Vivir, dijo Marco Aurelio, exige el talento del luchador, no del bailarín. Basta con mantenerte de pie: no hacen falta pasos hermosos”
Source: Age of Iron
“Vivir en el tiempo equivale a cambiar. La sequía y monotonía que tu paciente está atravesando ahora no son, como gustosamente supones, obra tuya; son meramente un fenómeno natural. Nuestro objetivo de guerra es un mundo en el que Nuestro Padre de las Profundidades haya absorbido en su interior a todos los demás seres; el Enemigo desea un mundo lleno de seres unidos a Él pero todavía distintos.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Vivir era una tarea urgente, claro que lo era. Y vivir buscando incesantemente aquello o aquellos que nos hacen felices. Ese tenía que ser mi objetivo a partir de ahora: agarrarme a la felicidad con fuerza y recolectarla”
Source: Mujeres que compran flores