“Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.” — Ashok Kallarakkal Copy Share Image
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that… — David Boies Copy Share Image
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of,… — Hannah Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
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