Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

Vladimir Lenin

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Wayne Dyer

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Walter Bagehot

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Virginia Woolf

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

William Blake

Without contraries there is no progression.

Werner Herzog

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Werner Herzog

I am a product of my failures,

Wale

Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.

Wallace Shawn

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

Wallace Shawn

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Samuel Beckett

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

Salvador Dali

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Salvador Dali

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Salman Rushdie

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Rudy Rucker

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Jostein Gaarder

But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

Jostein Gaarder

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

Kobe Bryant

I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.

Kofi Annan

We don't need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

Kevin Hart

I'm not going to stop having problems.

Keith Ellison

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

Keith Miller

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

Rachel True

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

Rachel Stevens

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postpone not your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Sean William Scott

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Liam Neeson

You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.

Les Brown

Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.