To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
‐‐ Ouida
To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.
‐‐ David Novak
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
‐‐ Rutherford B. Hayes
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
‐‐ Nancy Travis
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
‐‐ Robert Falcon Scott
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.
‐‐ Kelly Osbourne
To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.
‐‐ Theophilus London
To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards
To walk across the street is a risk.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
‐‐ Fred Durst
To walk away and be proud of something that you created and something that is going to be out there, I think that's amazing.
‐‐ Sasha Lane
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann
To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.
‐‐ Roger Lloyd-Pack
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
‐‐ George Orwell
To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
‐‐ Simone Weil
To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.
‐‐ Kenny Ortega
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd
To wear a floral shirt is an experience.
‐‐ Brian Wilson
To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.
‐‐ Roger Vivier
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher
To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
‐‐ Jay Parini
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
‐‐ Lemn Sissay
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
‐‐ Samuel Richardson
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
‐‐ Andre Gide
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
‐‐ George A. Moore
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
‐‐ Anna Seward
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions.
‐‐ Sarah Jones
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
‐‐ Alexis Carrel
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
‐‐ Anne Parillaud
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
‐‐ Eric Balfour
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
‐‐ Charles Eames
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut
To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.
‐‐ Tim Cook
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
‐‐ Andrew Young
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
‐‐ Frances Burney
To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.
‐‐ Francois de Malherbe
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
‐‐ Abby Wambach
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
‐‐ Ma Long
To win a joint gold medal with my brother - that's the dream, to cross the line together.
‐‐ Jonathan Brownlee