Virtually Quotes
481 quotes by 414 authors
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Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)…
— Philip Gourevitch
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I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
— Patrick O'Brian
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The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve…
— Tim O'Reilly
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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a…
— Paul Goldberger
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Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of…
— Niles Eldredge
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All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against…
— John Engler
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The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in…
— Bryan Fischer
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But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually…
— Steven Levitan
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Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
— Jock Sturges
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Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
— George Ayittey
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
— Aldrich Ames
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of…
— Alexander Fraser Tytler
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it…
— Henry Petroski
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually…
— William Ames
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Everything is an avenue leading to the experience of Ultimate Reality. The divine communicates itself in all things. There are infinite ways to encounter the…
— Wayne Teasdale
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and…
— Spider Robinson
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The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a…
— Jean-Francois Cope
Who Wrote These Virtually Quotes
414 authors contributed a total of 481 Virtually Quotes, led by these top contributors: