Quotes of Vastly - somelinesforyou

“ Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. ”

- Charles Caleb Cotton

“ There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe. ”

- Al Michaels

“ It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ”

- Kingman Brewster

“ One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ”

- Andre Maurois

“ Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own… We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. ”

- Richard Martin Stern

“ Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have… ”

- Charlton Ogburn Jr

“ We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty. ”

- Euell Gibbons
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