Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
Aaliyah

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
Aaliyah

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Woodrow Wilson

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
Charlie Chaplin