All Quotes

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
‐‐ Sidney Lanier

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
‐‐ Confucius

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.
‐‐ Alfred Hershey

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
‐‐ David Quammen

Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.
‐‐ Milos Zeman

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
‐‐ Ken Hensley

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
‐‐ Astro Teller

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.
‐‐ Bill Viola

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
‐‐ Li Ka-shing

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
‐‐ Robert Delaunay

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
‐‐ Robert Collier

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
‐‐ Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
‐‐ Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
‐‐ Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
‐‐ Joel A. Barker

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

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.
‐‐ Bill Hybels

Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
‐‐ Tim Burton

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
‐‐ James Rouse

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
‐‐ Thomas Gray

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
‐‐ Kate Williams

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
‐‐ John Wycliffe

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.
‐‐ Brad Thor

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!
‐‐ Trina Paulus

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
‐‐ Julia Glass

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
‐‐ Arnold Newman

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.
‐‐ James Lafferty

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
‐‐ Alex Cox

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
‐‐ Frank Darabont

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
‐‐ Derek Walcott

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling