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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of wa...
HERBERT V. PROCHNOW A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
HERBERT PROCHNOW A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make f...
HERBERT PROCHNOW A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of wa...
HERBERT PROCHNOW If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments
HERBERT PROCHNOW The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
HERBERT PROCHNOW You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
HERBERT PROCHNOW A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
HERBERT PROCHNOW There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of e...
HERBERT PROCHNOW The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
HERBERT PROCHNOW You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was ...
HERBERT PROCHNOW When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. PROCHNOW You knew then that Shimon could control Hoff.
CARLOS PROCHNOW I thought the roof was going to go off. The roar was just deafening.
CARLOS PROCHNOW Shimon was just a nice guy. He was what I would call a real gentleman, a friend of everybody's. I re...
CARLOS PROCHNOW He was an influence. I think there would be a lot of people in this town at that time and still to t...
CARLOS PROCHNOW We knew this was going to happen. We kicked it out to get some 3-pointers. (Steve) Halverson had a g...
BILL PROCHNOW We just didn't come out with the same intensity as (Edgerton) did.
BILL PROCHNOW Brad had a real nice night at the free-throw line.
BILL PROCHNOW

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the...
CHARLES V

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
CHARLES V

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V

I came, I saw, God conquered.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
CHARLES V

We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
CHARLES V Jesus fuck. I’m sitting right fucking here, Prez. Maybe shelve the porn a little, yeah?
V. THEIA Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.
V. THEIA He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p...
V. THEIA His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above h...
V. THEIA He felt at peace knowing his little bit of a thing was safe and recovering inside.
V. THEIA Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something n...
V. THEIA He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. THEIA Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
V. THEIA She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ...
V. THEIA He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.
V. THEIA His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
V. THEIA For what it was worth he already knew he resembled a pissed off serial killer most of the time, he w...
V. THEIA He watched with his predator eyes.
The hunger in them unmasked.
He was addicted.
H...
V. THEIA A man once said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting diff...
V. THEIA A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a seri...
KARTHIKEYAN V Divorce is like a death but with intent
KATHIEY V.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...
EUGENE V. DEBS I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was ha...
T. V. CARPIO As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral h...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. NAIPAUL

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of...
V. S. NAIPAUL

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myste...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to fe...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is always in movement.
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. NAIPAUL

A cat only has itself.
V. S. NAIPAUL

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
V. E. SCHWAB

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
V. E. SCHWAB

I like to play with tropes.
V. E. SCHWAB

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging fro...
V. E. SCHWAB

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ...
V. E. SCHWAB

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enou...
V. E. SCHWAB

I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB

So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V

Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS

The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS

There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS

There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS

There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU

How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides wi...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fac...
E. V. COOKE

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
V. RAYMOND EDMAN Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outs...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
E. V. LUCAS

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.
E. V. VERRALL

The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. PRITCHETT Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
V. S. PRITCHETT Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
PHILLIPE V. DESTOUCHES

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...
V. S. NAIPAUL Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of...
ANDREW V. MASON

While there is a lower class, I am in it.
While there is a criminal element, I am of it.
...
EUGENE V. DEBS

Behind every successful man, there is a woman; and behind her there is envy...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the ...
MARK V. HURD

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
V. S. NAIPAUL

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent tim...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot,...
PETER V. BRETT

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth throug...
KING GEORGE V

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and ...
V. E. SCHWAB

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of gov...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command ...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale,...
PETER V. BRETT

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for ...
EUGENE V. DEBS

Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, ...
MARIA V. SNYDER

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repeti...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molec...
C. V. RAMAN

When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by ocean...
C. V. RAMAN

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in t...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of...
C. V. RAMAN

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer ...
V. S. NAIPAUL

When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many differ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind...
V. S. NAIPAUL

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team ...
RICHARD V. ALLEN Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances an...
MARK V. HURD

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions tha...
V. E. SCHWAB

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
KING GEORGE V The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And...
JOHN V. CHENEY

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS

Nature is the best Time-keeper.
ANKALA V SUBBARAO

{Debbs' letter to EUGENE V. DEBS

We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-"
"He isn'...
MARIA V. SNYDER

Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have...
PETER V. BRETT Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly wit...
EDWARD V. LONG Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of ev...
V. S. NAIPAUL I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
V. S. NAIPAUL To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you ha...
V. S. NAIPAUL I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact ...
MARK V. HURD We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
H. V. ADOLT When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
HAROLD V MELCHERT Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
KING GEORGE V The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our ...
ELAINE V. EMANS Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
E. V. RIEU While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there...
EUGENE V DEBS All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific...
C. V. RAMAN An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the write...
V. S. NAIPAUL Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.
MARIA V. SNYDER When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of...
V. GORDON CHILDE No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. KLASSEN If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourse...
MATTHEW V. LEWIS

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