Vehemens Quotes & Sayings

Concentrate on your task. — Mahatma Gandhi

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined. — Matthew Lesko

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you. — Harry Browne

You don't really want to have to guard me forever, do you?'
'If it means keeping you alive, of course I do.'
'You really aren't a horrible man after all. — Jen Turano

I create my social existence by earning and spending. — Mason Cooley

The entropy of an isolated system always increases, and that when two systems are joined together, the entropy of the combined system is greater than the sum of the entropies of the individual systems. — Stephen Hawking

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. — Abigail McCarthy

Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again. — Roland Barthes

The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards. — Ivanka Trump

The Russian commands sound like the name of the camp commandant. Shishtvanyanov: a gnashing and spluttering collection of ch, sh, tch, shch. We can't understand the actual words, but we sense the contempt. You get used to contempt. After a while the commands just sound like a constant clearing of the throat - coughing, sneezing, nose blowing, hacking up mucus. Trudi Pelikan said: Russian is a language that's caught a cold. — Herta Muller

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess — H.G.Wells

As long as I do not give in to tension,
I hold on to tension.
P.C.M. Hermans
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August 18, 2016 — Petra Hermans

He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky. — Terry Pratchett

It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write — T.I.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. — Jeff Goodell