FastSaying

Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.


Steven V. Thulon

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Faith builds courage, courage builds strength, strength builds character; character defines who you ...
N. S. COLE Success builds character, failure reveals it
DAVE CHECKETT These are the games you like being in, because it defines character, and it defines a champion.
LENDALE WHITE Misery builds character, happiness makes cheesecake.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY WILLIAMS Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS The knock-on impact of the crisis risks sparking conflict on a scale that Kenya hasn't seen for almo...
GEZAHEGN KEBEDE Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness
FAITH BALDWIN Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.
FRANK SONNENBERG Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.
STACEY KADE Character development is conflict.
DAVID MACINNIS GILL It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN This builds character. It's easy when it's going good.
DANNY SHEAFFER The escalating food crisis in Kenya is threatening to plunge the affected region into a level of con...
GEZAHEGN KEBEDE It's time to bring down the curtain on this ridiculous farce. This conflict revealed a profound regi...
JACK LANG I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
GARRY SHANDLING character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited
ROBERT FREEDMAN Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
ROBERT FREEMAN Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
ROBERT FREEMAN Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
PETER F. DRUCKER The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH It really is enjoyable working with the young men and watching them learn. Scouting builds character...
DAVE BALTES Our visit here has been spectacular. Everybody here has been friendly. In a time of conflict and cri...
JOHN CENA They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
CURTIS JOSEPH Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, a...
HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, eth...
JONATHAN MABERRY It is not money, power, fame or name, but merely character that determines, decides and defines one'...
ANUJ SOMANY The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rog...
SARAH MACLEAN Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choic...
SHANNON L. ALDER "We must always remember that the tough choices we make and struggle with, builds character." ~Tom B...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN You should get used to people hating you for what you're doing. I'm not trying to discourage you. I ...
GARY GOTTLIEB The biggest problem during an economic crisis is not the financial issues. It is the crisis of value...
DIMITRIS TIMOTHEATOS A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often d...
ZACK W. VAN The animal is not likely to survive and if it does survive it's going to take a toll on the native w...
HENRY CABBAGE Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of char...
PAUL BRUNTON There is a kind of wisdom that grows in the heart from living in places such as you have been. It bu...
K. FARRELL ST. GERMAIN I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches peopl...
MO ROCCA A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
ANONYMOUS We want to gather opinions of the judiciary that remains neutral in the political conflict to help t...
CHARAN PAKDITHANAKUL The type of picture or image selection or its admiration defines man’s heart and reflects his pres...
ANUJ SOMANY I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me STASIA WARD KEHOE Enmity Defines war;Unity Defines Freedom
ARAVIND SANJEEV How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have ever...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Repetition builds continuity,
Continuity builds history,
History builds Identity.
ROSHAN SAMTANI Our state of mind defines our character, whether it is or not socially acceptable toward others.This...
SAAIF ALAM The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not...
JESSE JACKSON There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'...
CLIVE OWEN When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.
STEPHEN LANG It builds to a crescendo.
JUSTIN YOUNG I've never been part of the minority before, never have had to struggle to belong, so I figured I'd ...
APOL LEJANO-MASSEBIEAU A great person defines himself; an average person defines others.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Trust builds relationships. Loyalty builds empires. (www.terrybarnett.com)
TERRY BARNETT Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment a...
BOB AINSWORTH Keep cool but care
THOMAS PYNCHON Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving abov...
OSCAR WILDE Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these ...
CONOR MCGREGOR When you're able to survive a martial arts workout session, it definitely builds your stamina and bu...
MILLA JOVOVICH Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I...
JAMES MCAVOY Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.
RIHANNA Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria...
VINCE VAUGHN If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
STEVEN TYLER Blue is the closest color to truth.
STEVEN TYLER Steven is extremely committed to DreamWorks, ... He doesn't want it to go away.
KATHLEEN KENNEDY Destruction: "Our sister (Death) defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatre...
NEIL GAIMAN What I do defines who I am; what you do defines who you are.
AMBER DAWN There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.
FENNEL HUDSON Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being l...
NEV SCHULMAN It's not just the food crisis that is claiming lives in Kenya; the knock-on impact of the crisis ris...
GEZAHEGN KEBEDE I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's...
JANE CAMPION Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
DAVE FREUDENTHAL Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
THOMAS S. MONSON As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the...
OCTAVIO PAZ Steven came in with some difficult behaviors,
STEVEN ARMSTRONG Love defines itself cos we have no control over it.
OLASOT “There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.”
ZAMAN ALI It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints
GYAN NAGPAL There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.
ZAMAN ALI Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
DAVID GEFFEN It was a contrived crisis. There never was a crisis.
J. LOWELL STOLTZFUS The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over th...
JAMES Q. WILSON The people whom he admires honestly and the products/pictures that he adores genuinely, together def...
ANUJ SOMANY White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close
SOURCE UNKNOWN All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.
LEONARD SWEET V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies withi...
DAVID LLOYD It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,
ARLEN SPECTER It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade.
JOHN ROBERTS Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the ...
ALAN MOORE

More Steven V. Thulon

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 A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of wa...
HERBERT V. PROCHNOW 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 When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. PROCHNOW 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 The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
MARIA V. SNYDER The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
V. S. PRITCHETT The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized throu...
C. V. RAMAN The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
HARVEY V. FINEBERG I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They wi...
C. V. RAMAN I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and...
MARK V. HURD Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to incre...
COLIN V. REED I've been a free man.
V. S. NAIPAUL ...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE ...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
ANDREW V. MASON