According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it’s not really human unless there’s some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren’t really one or another.
Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.
I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party’s voters.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
I have zero interest in being vice president.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney worked at the State Department during the presidency of George W. Bush. While in Congress, Cheney has focused on pushing a Bush-era foreign policy, particularly in support of continuing the Afghanistan and Iraq wars indefinitely.
Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don’t think that’s being too demanding.
Fast cars are my only vice.
You totally can have it all if you want it all. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting it all. But also, there’s nothing wrong with not having it all if you want a career rather than kids, or vice versa.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
I’ve been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.
I know it sounds Pollyannish and ‘Kumbaya’-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what’s going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I’m a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.
It’s hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
I don’t care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.
I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you’ll hear my voice a lot. It subsidizes my vice of acting in the theater.
Whenever I’m doing stage, I want to be doing screen, and vice versa.
I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa – whether or not the creator of that music knows.
I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there’s no rhyme or reason.
I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people’s stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. – and vice versa.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
I think the one commonality between the two Super Bowl teams I’ve been on is great, great teammates. I can honestly say that guys in Philly could definitely thrive in New England and vice versa – if you throw out the scheme differences.
There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
I’m hoping Big Cass gets a great singles’ run and vice versa. We pull for each other in that regard.
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can’t stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
In the late ’70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn’t do TV and vice versa, but that’s gone now.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
Good-faith re-examination of a position you’ve held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
I don’t think Madrid would be Madrid without Barcelona and vice versa.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth – it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that’s the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It’s my vice.
The travel that I’ve spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in L.A. give me an immediacy to issues that sometimes people in Washington think about but aren’t experiencing every day.
Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.
I would argue that in the cyber arena, the need for private sector partnership is higher than really anywhere else of any program we have. So, the reality is we couldn’t do what we do without the private sector, and vice versa.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
I am more than just one thing. I think my acting has helping my dancing, and vice versa. And I write.
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That’s how I play.
I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things – not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.
I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.
Friends do give advice, but in the end, it’s up to you. Although I think it is nice to have a guy’s perspective on girls’ issues in relationships and vice versa.
Vice has done a great job at talking to millennials.
I’m a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.
You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He’s bright. He’s articulate.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.
What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.
