All Quotes

The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
‐‐ Xi Jinping

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
‐‐ Gifford Pinchot

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
‐‐ Frank Waters

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias

The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
‐‐ Ian Caldwell

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.
‐‐ David Novak

The Vatican takes your breath away.
‐‐ Joe Elliott

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
‐‐ Jack Valenti

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
‐‐ Jim Goad

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
‐‐ Morarji Desai

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
‐‐ Bill Viola

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
‐‐ Jim Webb

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.
‐‐ Nicolas Maduro

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

The venture community is largely male.
‐‐ Sandra Lerner

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
‐‐ Jessica Jackley

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
‐‐ John Wesley Powell

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
‐‐ Erwin Schrodinger

The verdict of the world is conclusive.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.
‐‐ Jason Day

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
‐‐ Christopher McCandless

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
‐‐ Mary Berry

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
‐‐ Ruth Gordon

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese

The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
‐‐ David Thewlis

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
‐‐ Dar Williams

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
‐‐ Dar Williams

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
‐‐ George F. Kennan

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
‐‐ George Orwell

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
‐‐ Brooke Shields