Vtrips Quotes & Sayings

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. — Ravi Zacharias

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man. — Joe Abercrombie

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. — Howard Nemerov

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture. — G-Eazy

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing ... — Shaun Tan

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. — Wanda Sykes

We must remember to enjoy ourselves. — Matt Roper

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education. — Jeffrey Rosen

I like horse farms. I like the idea of animals growing on trees. — Jarod Kintz

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education with social. — Kevin Swanson

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit ... — Edith Hamilton

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family! — Stephen Colbert

Is time real? ... In one sense, it's a silly question. The "reality" of something is only an interesting issue if its a well-defined concept whose actual existence is in question, like Bigfoot or supersymmetry. For concepts like "time," which are unambiguously part of a useful vocabulary we have for describing the world, talking about "reality" is just a bit of harmless gassing. They may be emergent or fundamental, but they're definitely there. — Sean Carroll