Very Quotes

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.