Vident Quotes & Sayings

In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast. — Edward R. Murrow

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him. — Jerry Spinelli

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.] — Plautus

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest. — Donald Miller

The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
[Lat., Di pia facta vident.] — Ovid

When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. — Emma Goldman

Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman. — Berta Ruck

The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and red and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window. — Tahereh Mafi

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy. — Dave Barry

From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life. I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records: I use them. — Joe Queenan

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience. — Patti LuPone

Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison. — David Sedaris

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. — Bill Maher

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' — Alice Hoffman

If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. — Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. — Timothy Keller