Quotes About Vital

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

For his presumption, his misunderstanding of what had been only a momentary weakness, instead of angering quickened her, roused from latency and long disuse all the instincts and resources of her femininity. She felt eager, challenged. Something was at hand that hitherto had always eluded her, even in the early days in John, something vital, beckoning, meaningful.

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

When Travis D'Ambrosia became chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he not only invented the resource-to-kill ratio, but developed a comprehensive strategy to employ it. I always listened to him when he told me a certain weapons system was vital.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love.

All citizens need to arm themselves with a basic knowledge of American history and stay abreast of current events, analyzing them with respect to history. Knowledge is power and at a time when the people are becoming increasingly impotent while the government grows larger and more powerful, it is vital that we arm ourselves with knowledge.

When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

Emotion apprises us that something vital to our welfare is occurring. We are bombarded by hundreds of thousands of stimuli every second of every day. Emotion automatically and reflexively sorts through the barrage, picking out what matters and steering us to the appropriate action. Our feelings guide us in issues large and small; they tell us what we want, what our preferences are, and what we need.

I feel so hopeless when I can't get through to you. I have never felt so lonely, not even when I lived alone." Sarah's message is urgent but Tim doesn't get it. He finds her "too emotional." But that is the point. We are never more emotional than when our primary love relationship is threatened. Sarah desperately needs to reconnect with Tim. Tim is desperately afraid that he has lost that intimacy with Sarah—connection is vital to him as well.

Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

The announcement of a triple meeting could only mean that the project had been cancelled or postponed, or changed. We had ten minutes to ruminate on which was the worst fate. If canceled or postponed, our only project went away, and with it, all hope of looking busy. Looking busy was essential to our feeling vital to the agency, to mention nothing of being perceived as such by the partners, who would conclude by our labors that is was impossible to lay us off.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

The U.S. has always been an indispensable ally.

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

Every innings is important.

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.