After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
— Vladimir Potanin
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Lenin
The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!
— Vladimir Bukovsky
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
— Vivienne Westwood
I am in my own head most of the time.
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.
— Vivica A. Fox
The thing in Alzheimer's disease to remember, and we remember this all the time at Axovant, is we don't fully understand the way the actual underlying disease works.
— Vivek Ramaswamy
When you are playing the longer version, there are times when you don’t have to get bat on ball on a regular basis but maybe a good leave outside the off stump can play its part in you surviving and the time that you would like to spend on the crease.
— Viv Richards
I am thankful that I played the game at a time when the West Indies climbed to heights that have never been repeated.
I use a nude color on my nails all the time!
— Vittoria Ceretti
By the time I was 17 years old, I already had my black belt.
— Vitor Belfort
I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.
— Vitalik Buterin
I spent a lot of time in Europe. I spent a lot of time in United States, I know what is modern standards of life... and always, if I return to my home country, I ask my country why very simple things that works everywhere else in the world doesn't work in Ukraine.
— Vitali Klitschko
Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
— Viswanathan Anand
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
— Virginia Woolf
I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
— Virginia Postrel
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
— Vladimir Nabokov
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.
I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.
I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.
— Vivian Campbell
I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer's - which disproportionately affects women and minorities.
Playing a Test in front of my home crowd at the Rec was the greatest feeling of my career. It was the first time I felt pressure on me to perform, because I wanted to do so well.
Directing taught me how to run a team and turn up on time - things you don't really learn when you're in a band.
— Viv Albertine
I just want to take one fight at a time.
You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
It's an exciting time in the world - democracy, in all its different shapes, is rolling around to new countries all the time. To have a chance to shape the democracy in my home country is an honor.
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.
I confess, I do not believe in time.
No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
— Vladimir Kramnik
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
I'm gonna wait for Mr. Right to come along and take my time. I'm just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it's not that I'm not taking applications.
What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.
— Vivek Wadhwa
I can do very dramatic films, and at the same time, I can do a very meaningless movie, too, if I feel my role is good.
— Vivek Oberoi
I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.
Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!
You've got to respect your body and know the time to transition to what's next. A lot of athletes cannot transition. They don't have nothing to do after.
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
— Vito Fossella
A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in, and assets are automatically redistributed among those parties according to a formula based on certain data that is not known at the time the contract is initiated.
I remember the day Ukraine became independent. I was 20; now I am over 40. It was like one second - time goes so fast. If we wait, the next 20 years will go by. We have a choice to wait or to fight for the better future of our country. I know better than anyone: no fight, no win.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
