Very Quotes

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.

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.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.