Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Decades ago women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health pushing bills to limit access to vital services we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

We need better neighbors neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

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

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

For good or for ill air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies however vital and important must accept a subordinate rank.

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.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but it is a source of inspiration of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

I always knew that food and wine were vital with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game you really do train to play. It tops up your ability like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Health is the vital principle of bliss and exercise of health.

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

You know sometimes I feel well and vital in the world and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity which is where I found myself for a large part of my life it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

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

Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.