Gerald Vann Quotes

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

Gerald Vann

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Mystery

• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Man
  • Hell

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Proving

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I love to take baths.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Love
  • Take
  • Baths

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Challenge

• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Music
  • Home

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • True
  • False

• It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • World
  • Looking

• For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Up
  • Eye

• You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth

• My answer to that i.e. the question of whether Ruth hoped to set a new single-season HR record was 'No.' I don't believe I can ever better my 60 mark that I made in 1927. And, frankly, I don't believe anyone else will beat it for a long time either.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• Mo: Uh... sorry. I was just wondering why you're... you know... using that if normally you just use crutches.Thea: Well, the chair is so much more dramatic, don't you think? I use it when I want people to feel extra sorry for me.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • People
  • Why
  • Sorry

• By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • People
  • Live
  • Humanity

• I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Moral

• I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Friends
  • Language
  • Loss

• I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Deserve

• How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

  

  Gerald Vann
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love