Very Quotes

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.