Quotes 7301 till 7320 of 8624.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Source: Maxims for Revolutionists -
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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War is a continuation of policy by other means. It is not merely a political act but a real political instrument.
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