Vital Quotes

We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate and the consequences of certain policy decisions.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!