Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball