Quotes with vital

  • Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
  • What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
  • As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
  • Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
  • To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
  • So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
  • Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
  • One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
  • I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Brad Delson 'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Greg Norman Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And so with all things: names were vital and important.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Sylvia Plath Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • David Byrne As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arlen Specter But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bob Barr Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Georg Groddeck Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.
    Georg Groddeck
    German physician, founder of psychosomatics (1866 - 1934)
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  • Conrad Hilton Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
    Conrad Hilton
    American businessman and founder of the Hilton hotels (1887 - 1979)
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  • Herman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Dedman Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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