Quotes About Vital

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

A man may outlive many wounds received in the arms or legs, but a stab in the heart or other vital parts is the certain messenger of death approaching. Thus righteousness and holiness preserve the principal part of a Christian —his soul and conscience.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The poetry of each age may be considered as vitally connected with, and as vividly reflective of, its character and progress, as either its politics or its religion.

Things are often more meaningful when they come out of natural need. You don't think about the beating of your heart until things go amiss. And there aren't many things much sweeter than breath after the lack of it.

T]he sheer magnitude of Britain's commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so great a sacrifice.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.

That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

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.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Maintain your relationships - for all kinds of reasons, friends are vital. Good friends, supportive friends, friends who won't judge you or try to take advantage of you.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

Great business turns on a little pin.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.