"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know how to take a vacation." Clarence Day "Three whole months of Spaghetti-O's and daytime TV!" The Simpsons - The Complete First Season "You can't have too many snow globes or seashell hats." Alamo ad Vacuum "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." Tennessee Williams "Chicks like vacuum cleaners." South Park Valley "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." James Rogers “Clients who think they own you are the ones most resistant to paying you what you're worth.” Nancy Winebarger "To me, yes, it's worth the money." Gregory Olsen (spent $20M on a space flight) Values "When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier." Roy Disney "You must have values you can't lose - a good heart and honesty." Hüseyin Bayindir Variety "I like variety." Stelios "Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety." Francis Bacon "Variety is the mother of enjoyment." Benjamin Disraeli "I find it hard to get excited about vegetables." Louise Doughty, An English Murder "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." A. Whitney Brown "It's a Native American word ... meaning lousy hunter." Shoe Vengeance "Vengeance has made its unappeased way with every dart of death and visited your family one by one. And now with eager hand fate is pursuing you. Your turn has come." Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides I: The Complete Greek Tragedies "There is something fundamentally untrustworthy about Venice. She is like a moody, enigmatic mistress whose loualties cannot be relied on, a mistress whom you continually fear will leave you for someone richer, more powerful. No man can hold on to her indefinitely though many have tried." Paul Adam, The Rainaldi Quartet "Venice is supported by rats. Really, low tide is the problem, not the high tide. We always had the high tide. This is in the medieval text. The high tide is good for Venice. It cleans the streets. It flushes out the canals - they are blue, not green, after the high tide. And it kills the rats." Piero as quoted in Rick Steves' Postcards from Europe "A genuine sentiment is so rare, that when I leave Versailles, I sometimes stand still in the street to see a dog gnaw a bone." Unknown "An unfortunate site for the seat of Bourbon power: a hillock of unstable sand in the middle of a swamp in a wind tunnel of a valley." Kathryn Davis, Versailles, a novel "The confounded gnats here do not let me have an hour's sleep. They have chewed me up so much that I look as if I had smallpox again. We are also plagued by wasps. Not a day goes by when someone is not stung." Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans Victory "Being captured is beside the point. The point is not to surrender." Nazim Hikmet "There is no finish line." Nike Corporation "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakowa "Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe." John Milton, Paradise Lost ( Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The...) "You have to define your conditions of victory. If you don't know what you're trying to do, how can you tell when you've done it?" Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Shatterpoint Vigilante "That's the trouble with vigilante justice. ... Once you've decided you've got the right to play God, you don't just cross the line - you stop seein' that there's any line there at all." Sally Spencer, The Butcher Beyond Village "It takes a village." Hillary Clinton "It takes a village idiot." Don Imus "It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a B-52 to raze a village." John O'Brien Violence "After what I saw on the ground - body parts, heads split open, guts spilled - I am afraid to be alone with myself. There is a nightmare in my head." Moshe Saroussi "Anyone ever heard of a drive by stabbing?" Jonathan Alter "Even in the final moment, people always hope the shooters will change their minds." Jack Maple "Guns don't kill people, Writers do." Writers Guild "How strong do you have to be to pull a trigger?" G.I. Jane "I ain't never liked violence." Sugar Ray Robinson "If it bleeds, it leads." Media mantra "It was horrible enough that, at the age of 17, I had to run for my life from my own high school. It is even more hideous when guns are turned against preschoolers. This must stop, and it must stop now." Devon Adams "Only forgiveness and compassion can put an end to violence." Sunil Dutta "The worship of the gun can be extended to weaponry of any kind, including that which may destroy everything. ... People often resist controls over the objects they revere. But human beings are capable of modifying their own mythologies." Robert Jay Lifton, M. D., "The Psyche of a 'Gunocracy, " Newsweek "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov, Foundation "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word." Al Capone "Violet, a red succumbing to blue, is the color of women no longer fruitful and of priests living in celibacy." Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (Oxford... Virtual "The printed page is obsolete. The only reality is virtual. If you're not jacked in, you're not alive." Fritz Siegel Virtue "Virtue is no one's monopoly." David Broder "Virtue is its own reward." Cicero
"A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world." Unknown "In the end, for me, it’s all about a vision." Leo Spiegel "May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far." Irish toast "Push your Vision to the Limit." Samsung ad "The best companion for vision is courage. ... It's not only about seeing what others cannot. It's about acting on what you see." Infoworld Smart Solutions advertorial "The vision is for him who will see it." Plotinus "Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare upthe steps; we must step up the steps." Vaclav Havel "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." Japanese proverb "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock Vocabulary "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever." Unknown Vomit "There aren't a lot of people who want to promote barfing." Doug Hall Vote "Can anyone tell me how I will explain to my children that every vote counts except those the lawyers fight to exclude?" Pamela Chatenay-LaPointe "Don't vote for bad people." President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we're not willing ... to count every vote?" Senator Joseph Lieberman "If you don't vote, who will?" George P. Bush "If you think it's all technicalities, remember Selma. ... It will make a mockery of the memory of the martyrs if all of the people's votes are not counted." John Lewis It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." ?Joseph Stalin? "Now that the votes have been counted, it's time for the votes to count." George W. Bush "Vote early and vote often." Unknown "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing." Bernard Baruch "Voting should be quick, easy and appropriate to our technologically sophisticated time." Anna Quindlen Vulnerability "We are always naked - clothed or unclothed." William Hurt
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