Quotes 19181 till 19200 of 25152.
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
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The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Source: On becoming a person: a therapists view of psychotherapy (1961 edition), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) -
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845) -
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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