Vera Brittain quote: "At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous."

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
VERA BRITTAIN

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or ...
VERA BRITTAIN

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . i...
VERA BRITTAIN

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...
VERA BRITTAIN

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who...
VERA BRITTAIN

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...
VERA BRITTAIN

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about...
VERA BRITTAIN

It seems delightfully incongruous,’ he wrote from Armentie‘res, ‘that there should be good sho...
VERA BRITTAIN

A number of neurotic ancestors, combined with with persistent, unresolved terrors of childhood, had ...
VERA BRITTAIN

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...
VERA BRITTAIN

But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much di...
VERA BRITTAIN

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...
VERA BRITTAIN

There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears ...
VERA BRITTAIN

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict ...
VERA BRITTAIN

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - w...
VERA BRITTAIN

He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man o...
VERA BRITTAIN

Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue somethi...
VERA BRITTAIN

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...
VERA BRITTAIN

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my...
VERA BRITTAIN

That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...
VERA BRITTAIN

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...
VERA BRITTAIN

Four impressionable years spent in a number of very different hospitals convinced me once for all th...
VERA BRITTAIN

It is always so strange that when you are working you never think of all the inspiring thoughts that...
VERA BRITTAIN

Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things a...
VERA BRITTAIN

There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my futur...
VERA BRITTAIN

Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall s...
VERA BRITTAIN

Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite vari...
VERA BRITTAIN

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or ...
VERA BRITTAIN (MARY)

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN (MARY)

Use the time of stillness as a platform for creative rebirth. It's a gift, given to you at the right...
VERA

This is a level that is going to dazzle the public. You'll never see anything like this unless you'r...
SHERRI BRITTAIN

The U has many buildings that need state support. But not all have the resources available to raise ...
JACK BRITTAIN

Our goal is to offer a world-class business education to the citizens of Utah, and the rankings conf...
JACK BRITTAIN

There are, out there, some perceptions about what business training is, and they're not always posit...
JACK BRITTAIN

Not a lot of people would do that at that time. But that's Mike.
JACK BRITTAIN

What Mike has done is just incredible. He's really got people excited.
JACK BRITTAIN

I haven't seen anything like this with the basketball team.
JACK BRITTAIN

The technology they are developing is incredibly important, We want to expedite the technology to ge...
JACK BRITTAIN

A lot of politicians show up, especially around election time.
JACK BRITTAIN

That's how fast things travel on this island.
JACK BRITTAIN

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does...
VERA WANG

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for othe...
VERA WANG

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in on...
VERA WANG

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest o...
VERA WANG

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always ...
VERA WANG

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays...
VERA WANG

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go ...
VERA WANG

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was ...
VERA WANG

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder...
VERA WANG

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another...
VERA WANG

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose th...
VERA WANG

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
VERA WANG

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
VERA WANG

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANG

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, parti...
VERA WANG

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
VERA WANG

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
VERA RUBIN

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different ques...
VERA RUBIN

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
VERA RUBIN

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
VERA MILES

I couldn't kill a fly.
VERA MILES

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have t...
VERA FARMIGA

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
VERA FARMIGA

There's no wrong way to experience a film.
VERA FARMIGA

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
VERA FARMIGA

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice b...
VERA FARMIGA

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ...
VERA FARMIGA

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
VERA FARMIGA

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
VERA FARMIGA

Music is what our feelings sound like.
VERA FARMIGA

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
VERA FARMIGA

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
VERA FARMIGA

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I ...
VERA FARMIGA

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being th...
VERA FARMIGA

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is &...
VERA FARMIGA

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
VERA FARMIGA

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
VERA FARMIGA

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say th...
VERA FARMIGA

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
VERA FARMIGA

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just m...
VERA FARMIGA

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come a...
VERA FARMIGA

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes...
VERA FARMIGA

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make ...
VERA FARMIGA

I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
VERA FARMIGA

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
VERA FARMIGA

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
VERA WANG

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and ope...
VERA FARMIGA

It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yo...
VERA WANG

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed...
VERA WANG

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I re...
VERA WANG

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions
VERA RUBIN

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
VERA WANG

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that peop...
VERA WANG

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.

We all s...
VERA NAZARIAN

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
VERA NAZARIAN

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point li...
VERA NAZARIAN

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligation...
VERA NAZARIAN

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle...
VERA NAZARIAN

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the brea...
VERA FARMIGA

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-bloo...
VERA NAZARIAN

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an opt...
VERA NAZARIAN

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
VERA NAZARIAN

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2....
VERA NAZARIAN

Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twi...
VERA NAZARIAN

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shape...
VERA NAZARIAN

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all th...
VERA NAZARIAN

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else ...
VERA NAZARIAN

It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is som...
VERA NAZARIAN

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other...
VERA NAZARIAN

It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepes...
VERA NAZARIAN

Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.

Prede...
VERA NAZARIAN

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
VERA NAZARIAN

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — ...
VERA NAZARIAN

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep...
VERA NAZARIAN

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it eit...
VERA NAZARIAN

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. VERA NAZARIAN

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
VERA JOHNSON

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have ...
VERA NAZARIAN

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
VERA NAZARIAN

On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.

Wh...
VERA NAZARIAN

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is...
VERA WANG

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredi...
VERA WANG

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio...
VERA WANG

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the ide...
VERA WANG

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something ...
VERA FARMIGA

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creat...
VERA NAZARIAN

One of the strangest things is the act of creation.

You are faced with a blank slate—a ...
VERA NAZARIAN

Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is th...
VERA NAZARIAN

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearin...
VERA WANG

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try...
VERA NAZARIAN

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
VERA NAZARIAN

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p...
VERA FARMIGA

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.

And, as with all...
VERA NAZARIAN

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of won...
VERA NAZARIAN

Don't look for a soul mate.

Make one -- out of the complex fabric of the human bei...
VERA NAZARIAN

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls t...
VERA NAZARIAN

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the m...
VERA NAZARIAN

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
VERA NAZARIAN

When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavend...
VERA NAZARIAN

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
VERA NAZARIAN

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression f...
VERA NAZARIAN

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place o...
VERA NAZARIAN

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
VERA NAZARIAN

A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or...
VERA NAZARIAN

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to...
VERA NAZARIAN

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get ...
VERA NAZARIAN

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.

Know that a well-honed...
VERA NAZARIAN

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your m...
VERA WANG

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ...
VERA WANG

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straigh...
VERA WANG

My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and ...
VERA WANG

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep ...
VERA FARMIGA

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
VERA NAZARIAN

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.

It rings to announc...
VERA NAZARIAN

It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."...
VERA NAZARIAN

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a p...
VERA NAZARIAN

Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a com...
VERA NAZARIAN

Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion...
VERA NAZARIAN

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a bet...
VERA FARMIGA

What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautifu...
VERA NAZARIAN

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on ...
VERA NAZARIAN

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You s...
VERA FARMIGA

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
VERA WANG

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instin...
VERA WANG

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, whi...
VERA WANG

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
VERA WANG

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

...
VERA NAZARIAN

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes...
VERA NAZARIAN

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled...
VERA WANG

Here's a funny question:

What is your favorite word?

Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN

Luck is not as random as you think.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h...
VERA NAZARIAN

Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.

But in the heart of winter, you want a ...
VERA NAZARIAN

Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't und...
VERA FARMIGA

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fac...
VERA NAZARIAN

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of a...
VERA NAZARIAN

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN

When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream b...
VERA NAZARIAN

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

Karma is not...
VERA NAZARIAN

Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the...
VERA NAZARIAN

Today is an ephemeral ghost...

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four year...
VERA NAZARIAN

Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain o...
VERA NAZARIAN

Gift giving is a true art.

1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to giv...
VERA NAZARIAN

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true n...
VERA NAZARIAN

We are all glorified motion sensors.

Some things only become visible to us when they unde...
VERA NAZARIAN

[Then she moved into the eveningwear, fragrance and tabletop categories. This is only her second yea...
VERA WANG

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shap...
VERA NAZARIAN

What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a ...
VERA NAZARIAN

At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

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At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

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