But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.


Vera Brittain

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...
VERA BRITTAIN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will pr...
JAMES C. DOBSON
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...
CLIVE BARKER
The government has done its part, now it's time that people do their part, ... We have never, in our...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that th...
JOHN BOYD ORR
You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ
. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë
It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When...
THOMAS MERTON
We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don’t notice how it affects so...
AVA DELLAIRA
He doesn't know this now, but in the years to come he will, again and again, test Harold's claims of...
HANYA YANAGIHARA
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often...
COCO J. GINGER
It is unfortunate for Ashley's situation, and we are really hurting for Ashley like everyone else wi...
DALTON GOODING
He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the ton...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any ...
AMIT RAY
But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. Thi...
DAVE EGGERS
For many months the US was standoffish from this reform process, which is odd, since reform of the U...
LEE FEINSTEIN
You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI
And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY
Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY
Yes, definitely we want to see A or B or C and so forth live safely and soundly. But as mortal creat...
SUKARNO
Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN
Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE
The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY
Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY
Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY
A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY
Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY
It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY
You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY
I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY
Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY
Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND
We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND
None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND
Do as much as you can ahead of time, and allow yourself a little extra time each morning for that un...
BARRY IZSAK
We definitely prepare really hard for every team and these teams [Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt] are r...
SARAH WALSH
We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of m...
THOMAS MANN
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
PAUL DICKSON
Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON
Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON
Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON
Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON
Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON
Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON
Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON
Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON
Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.
MICHAEL BLAKE
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON
Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON
Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON
Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON
A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.
PAUL DICKSON
A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON
The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH
The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough...
JAMES MADISON
Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern in...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Coventry, such as its history and geography and mapping, is already a major part of the third grade ...
DIANE HUNTER
There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our...
JOHN DENVER
But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im...
C.G. JUNG
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...
H. RIDER HAGGARD
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progr...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN
Personal contacts are so much more important and now we have this contact and who knows what else wi...
ALASTAR ADAMS
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of eco...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
I have a lot of respect for East Carolina. One of my biggest concerns is stopping Corey Rouse. He is...
BRAD BROWNELL
We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in th...
KRISTIN NEWBY
[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompani...
RALPH LINTON
For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a th...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
It definitely affects us. Jermaine plays a major part of what we're trying to do offensively, and in...
JOE BECERRA
It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need
are more ways to experienc...
JOHN DENVER
We have approximately 1,200 kids in the high school and this affects everyone. Tragedies like this a...
HUGH CAUMARTIN
It (Longview) was one of the better games we have played together and no Mesquite ISD team had beate...
ALEX FIGERT
We are very eager to do that so we can reassure their families. ... those are the norms of internati...
JOSEPH PRUEHER
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of...
LIBBA BRAY
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

More Vera Brittain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
VERA BRITTAIN
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or ...
VERA BRITTAIN
At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . i...
VERA BRITTAIN
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...
VERA BRITTAIN
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who...
VERA BRITTAIN
Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...
VERA BRITTAIN
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about...
VERA BRITTAIN
It seems delightfully incongruous,’ he wrote from Armentie‘res, ‘that there should be good sho...
VERA BRITTAIN
A number of neurotic ancestors, combined with with persistent, unresolved terrors of childhood, had ...
VERA BRITTAIN
When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...
VERA BRITTAIN
At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adol...
VERA BRITTAIN
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...
VERA BRITTAIN
There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears ...
VERA BRITTAIN
I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict ...
VERA BRITTAIN
There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - w...
VERA BRITTAIN
He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man o...
VERA BRITTAIN
Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue somethi...
VERA BRITTAIN
Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...
VERA BRITTAIN
I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my...
VERA BRITTAIN
That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...
VERA BRITTAIN
People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...
VERA BRITTAIN
Four impressionable years spent in a number of very different hospitals convinced me once for all th...
VERA BRITTAIN
It is always so strange that when you are working you never think of all the inspiring thoughts that...
VERA BRITTAIN
Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things a...
VERA BRITTAIN
There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my futur...
VERA BRITTAIN
Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall s...
VERA BRITTAIN
Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite vari...
VERA BRITTAIN
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or ...
VERA BRITTAIN (MARY)
At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN (MARY)
Use the time of stillness as a platform for creative rebirth. It's a gift, given to you at the right...
VERA
This is a level that is going to dazzle the public. You'll never see anything like this unless you'r...
SHERRI BRITTAIN
The U has many buildings that need state support. But not all have the resources available to raise ...
JACK BRITTAIN
Our goal is to offer a world-class business education to the citizens of Utah, and the rankings conf...
JACK BRITTAIN
There are, out there, some perceptions about what business training is, and they're not always posit...
JACK BRITTAIN
Not a lot of people would do that at that time. But that's Mike.
JACK BRITTAIN
What Mike has done is just incredible. He's really got people excited.
JACK BRITTAIN
I haven't seen anything like this with the basketball team.
JACK BRITTAIN
The technology they are developing is incredibly important, We want to expedite the technology to ge...
JACK BRITTAIN
A lot of politicians show up, especially around election time.
JACK BRITTAIN
That's how fast things travel on this island.
JACK BRITTAIN
Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does...
VERA WANG
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for othe...
VERA WANG
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in on...
VERA WANG
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest o...
VERA WANG
I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always ...
VERA WANG
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays...
VERA WANG
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go ...
VERA WANG
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was ...
VERA WANG
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder...
VERA WANG
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another...
VERA WANG
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose th...
VERA WANG
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
VERA WANG
It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
VERA WANG
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANG
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, parti...
VERA WANG
Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
VERA WANG
No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
VERA RUBIN
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different ques...
VERA RUBIN
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
VERA RUBIN
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
VERA MILES
I couldn't kill a fly.
VERA MILES
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have t...
VERA FARMIGA
I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
VERA FARMIGA
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
VERA FARMIGA
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
VERA FARMIGA
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice b...
VERA FARMIGA
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ...
VERA FARMIGA
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
VERA FARMIGA
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
VERA FARMIGA
Music is what our feelings sound like.
VERA FARMIGA
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
VERA FARMIGA
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
VERA FARMIGA
Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I ...
VERA FARMIGA
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being th...
VERA FARMIGA
In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is &...
VERA FARMIGA
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
VERA FARMIGA
I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
VERA FARMIGA
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say th...
VERA FARMIGA
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
VERA FARMIGA
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just m...
VERA FARMIGA
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come a...
VERA FARMIGA
The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes...
VERA FARMIGA
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make ...
VERA FARMIGA
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
VERA FARMIGA
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
VERA FARMIGA
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
VERA WANG
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and ope...
VERA FARMIGA
It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yo...
VERA WANG
It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed...
VERA WANG
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I re...
VERA WANG
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions
VERA RUBIN
I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
VERA WANG
Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that peop...
VERA WANG
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.

We all s...
VERA NAZARIAN
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
VERA NAZARIAN
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point li...
VERA NAZARIAN
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligation...
VERA NAZARIAN
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle...
VERA NAZARIAN
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the brea...
VERA FARMIGA
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-bloo...
VERA NAZARIAN
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an opt...
VERA NAZARIAN
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
VERA NAZARIAN
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2....
VERA NAZARIAN
Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twi...
VERA NAZARIAN
Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shape...
VERA NAZARIAN
A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all th...
VERA NAZARIAN
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else ...
VERA NAZARIAN
It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is som...
VERA NAZARIAN
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other...
VERA NAZARIAN
It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepes...
VERA NAZARIAN
Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.

Prede...
VERA NAZARIAN
Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
VERA NAZARIAN
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — ...
VERA NAZARIAN
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep...
VERA NAZARIAN
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it eit...
VERA NAZARIAN
The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. VERA NAZARIAN There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
VERA JOHNSON
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have ...
VERA NAZARIAN
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
VERA NAZARIAN
On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.

Wh...
VERA NAZARIAN
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is...
VERA WANG
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredi...
VERA WANG
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio...
VERA WANG
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the ide...
VERA WANG
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something ...
VERA FARMIGA
Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creat...
VERA NAZARIAN
One of the strangest things is the act of creation.

You are faced with a blank slate—a ...
VERA NAZARIAN
Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is th...
VERA NAZARIAN
I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearin...
VERA WANG
The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try...
VERA NAZARIAN
Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
VERA NAZARIAN
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p...
VERA FARMIGA
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.

And, as with all...
VERA NAZARIAN
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of won...
VERA NAZARIAN
Don't look for a soul mate.

Make one -- out of the complex fabric of the human bei...
VERA NAZARIAN
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls t...
VERA NAZARIAN
Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the m...
VERA NAZARIAN
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
VERA NAZARIAN
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavend...
VERA NAZARIAN
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
VERA NAZARIAN
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression f...
VERA NAZARIAN
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place o...
VERA NAZARIAN
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN
Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
VERA NAZARIAN
A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or...
VERA NAZARIAN
If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to...
VERA NAZARIAN
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get ...
VERA NAZARIAN
You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.

Know that a well-honed...
VERA NAZARIAN
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your m...
VERA WANG
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ...
VERA WANG
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straigh...
VERA WANG
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and ...
VERA WANG
Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep ...
VERA FARMIGA
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
VERA NAZARIAN
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.

It rings to announc...
VERA NAZARIAN
It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."...
VERA NAZARIAN
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a p...
VERA NAZARIAN
Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a com...
VERA NAZARIAN
Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion...
VERA NAZARIAN
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a bet...
VERA FARMIGA
What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautifu...
VERA NAZARIAN
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on ...
VERA NAZARIAN
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You s...
VERA FARMIGA
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
VERA WANG
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instin...
VERA WANG
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, whi...
VERA WANG
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
VERA WANG
Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

...
VERA NAZARIAN
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes...
VERA NAZARIAN
The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled...
VERA WANG
Here's a funny question:

What is your favorite word?

Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN
Luck is not as random as you think.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h...
VERA NAZARIAN
Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.

But in the heart of winter, you want a ...
VERA NAZARIAN
Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN
I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't und...
VERA FARMIGA
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fac...
VERA NAZARIAN
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of a...
VERA NAZARIAN
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream b...
VERA NAZARIAN
Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

Karma is not...
VERA NAZARIAN
Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the...
VERA NAZARIAN
Today is an ephemeral ghost...

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four year...
VERA NAZARIAN
Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain o...
VERA NAZARIAN
Gift giving is a true art.

1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to giv...
VERA NAZARIAN
Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true n...
VERA NAZARIAN
We are all glorified motion sensors.

Some things only become visible to us when they unde...
VERA NAZARIAN
[Then she moved into the eveningwear, fragrance and tabletop categories. This is only her second yea...
VERA WANG
Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shap...
VERA NAZARIAN
What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a ...
VERA NAZARIAN