All Quotes

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
‐‐ George Eliot

In the Valley, what's happened is you have entrepreneurs that just want to fill a hole in the market and have a rich exit.
‐‐ Danny Rimer

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
‐‐ Donald G. Mitchell

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
‐‐ Bill Kreutzmann

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.
‐‐ Heather O'Reilly

In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman

In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.
‐‐ PewDiePie

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.
‐‐ Roger Rees

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
‐‐ Yannick Noah

In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
‐‐ Sam Kean

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
‐‐ James Wolcott

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.
‐‐ Brad Thor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor

In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president's program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
‐‐ Brian Eno

In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.
‐‐ Per Petterson

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
‐‐ John Pople

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
‐‐ James Monroe

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
‐‐ Dan Levitan

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
‐‐ Chow Yun-Fat

In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
‐‐ Duane Michals

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
‐‐ George Ayittey

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
‐‐ Paul Rand

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
‐‐ John Burdett

In the West, you take people at their word.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
‐‐ Pope Francis

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
‐‐ Thomas Day

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.
‐‐ Masatoshi Koshiba

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
‐‐ Barack Obama

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
‐‐ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.
‐‐ Paul Stamets

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'
‐‐ Tom Reiss