Vdet Versus Quotes & Sayings

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. — Mac Thornberry

I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted to sing. — Lindsay Pagano

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor. — Artie Lange

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. — Willie Jolley

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something ... It's all about connecting the dots. — Kim Rossmo

Do not be shocked, but I suspect some priests' and ministers' moral failures are actually very helpful to their own "salvation" and necessary for their growing up. — Richard Rohr

You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God ... But it did concern me. — Ryan Reynolds

I think of my chastened surprise when Mabel played with a paper telescope. She is real. She can resist the meanings humans give her. But the condor? The condor has no resistance to us at all. I stare at the attenuated, drifting image on the gallery screen. It is a shadow, a figure of loss and hope; it is hardly a bird at all. — Helen Macdonald

And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And again one asks oneself what has one done with one's years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. Some more years will pass, and after them will come gloomy solitude; then will come old age trembling on its crutch, and after it misery and desolation. Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die and will fall like yellow leaves from the trees. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that. — Zella Day

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it. — Vincent Van Gogh

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. — Victor Hugo

The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge. — Israel Shenker