Very Quotes

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Envy aims very high.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.