Vital Quotes

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
Dick Cheney

Attitude, Doubt, Security

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
Eric Bana

Humor, Sense, Everyone

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).
Lucy Powell

Economy, Jobs, City

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
Jane Pauley

Future, Process, Knows

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce

Truth, Science, May

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo

Talk, Social, Dangerous

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.
Tom Vilsack

Teacher, School, Job

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson

Education, Men, Knowledge

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
Tim Berners-Lee

Sense, Talk, Last

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Charles Schumer

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Anne Rice

God, Character, Him

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
Sharon Stone

War, Necessary, Reasons

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.
Andrew Weil

Emotional, Sleep, While

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
Cathy McMorris

Freedom, Both, Private

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Nhat Hanh

Peace, Human, Practice

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.
Jaron Lanier

Enjoy, Understand, Sometimes

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft

Country, Whole, Republican

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Clifford Geertz

Bad, Makes, Alive

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
Kenneth Branagh

Music, Experience, Important

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Life, God, Important

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Terry Eagleton

Business, Learning, End

Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.
Terry Eagleton

Women, Men, Power

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Political, Down

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
Edward Bond

Important, Level, Respond

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius

Off, Somebody, Left

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Brad Henry

Democracy, Reading, Educated

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi Annan

Business, Society, Community

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge

Life, Human, Studying

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
Christiane Amanpour

Society, Play, Fact

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.
George Soros

American, Hurting, President

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