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Where there's help, there's hope.
Sister Christine Vladimiroff

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire

They can because they think they can.
Virgil, "Aeneid", 19 B.C.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them, either.
Gore Vidal

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."
And God granted it.
Voltaire

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter de Vries

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter de Vries, writer

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do.
Michelle Ventor

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
David Viscott, psychiatrist and writer

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter de Vries

I don't want to get into anything that would only be halfway. If we're going to commit to it, then we're going to commit to it all the way.
Al Unser, jr., racecar driver

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter de Vries

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

I believe that the details of our lives will be forgotten by most, but the emotion, the spirit, will linger with those who shared it, and be part of them forever.
Liv Ullmann, actor

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit. To me, conceit is bragging about yourself. Being confident means you believe you can get the job done, but you know you can't get your job done, unless you have the confidence that the other guys are going to get their jobs done, too. Without them, I'm nothing.
Johnny Unitas, Hall of Fame football player

Paradise is where I am.
Voltaire (1694-1778), historian

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov (1921- ), actor/writer/director

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Paul Valery

If you dust off old junk, sometimes you'll come up with a gem.
Bill Veeck (1914-86), baseball team owner

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another noncomformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

If you wallow in the past, you'll stay there.
Ben Vereen, entertainer

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire (1694-1778)

A word is a microcosm of human consciousness.
Lev Vygostky, Thought and Language

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

1. Never tell everything at once.
Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Laws of Life

Cooperation is spelled with two letters - WE.
George M. Verity (1865-1942), steel mill founder and inventor

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