Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

Vladimir Lenin

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Vladimir Lenin

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

Vladimir Lenin

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Lenin

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

Vladimir Lenin

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

Wayne Dyer

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

Wayne Dyer

So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle.

Walter Annenberg

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Walter Bagehot

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Walter Bagehot

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Walter Bagehot

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

Walter Bagehot

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Walter Bagehot

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Cronkite

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

Walter Cronkite

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Walter Cronkite

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

Virginia Woolf

Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house ...

Virginia Woolf

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

Virginia Woolf

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

Virginia Woolf

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

Virginia Woolf

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

William Bernbach

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

William Bernbach

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

William Bernbach

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.

William Bernbach

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.

Wendy Williams

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"

Wendy Wasserstein

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Wentworth Miller

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

Wentworth Miller

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.