Quotes 5781 till 5800 of 6832.
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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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!
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31] -
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
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