Very Quotes (page 2)

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• religious
• education
• courage

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. H. G. Wells

• deep
• page
• likeness

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. Douglas Adams

• wellness
• then
• crooked

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• life
• thinking
• evening

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I... F. Scott Fitzgerald

• character
• effectively
• few people

Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters. Bertrand Russell

• mind
• couple
• mindfulness

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach. Lawrence Durrell

• great
• knowledge
• game

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on! Charles Dickens

• time
• law
• illness

Very good laws may be ill timed. Charles de Secondat

• life
• attention
• close attention

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. Joss Whedon

• funeral
• him
• author

Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals. Dan Simmons

• happy
• very happy
• happiness

very happy Rabindranath Tagore

• rock
• little
• willful

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. Rumi

• simple
• explanation
• wrongfully

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! H. G. Wells

• consider
• little
• career

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s just a mother.' And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, 'Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.' Doesn’t mean that... J. K. Rowling

• powerful
• mind
• mindfulness

Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements. Howard Zinn