Many Quotes

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.