Authors by Name: V
Rudolph Valentino (2)
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
136 quotes about dreams
Paul Valery (16)
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
Jim Valvano (5)
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
24 quotes regarding birthday
Ludwig van Beethoven (12)
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
233 quotes about being alone
Martin Van Buren (2)
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
184 other views regarding government
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (5)
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
62 quotes about architecture
Mark Van Doren (2)
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
80 sayings regarding humor
Henry Van Dyke (11)
Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
364 more quotes relating to best
Vincent Van Gogh (23)
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
425 quotes relating to art
Cornelius Vanderbilt (2)
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
210 other quotes about education
Stevie Ray Vaughan (2)
Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
15 more thoughts about being cool
Jules Verne (3)
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
420 more quotes regarding nature
Gianni Versace (5)
I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
175 sayings about change
David Viscott (2)
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
161 quotes about courage
Swami Vivekananda (9)
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
402 other quotes regarding God
Voltaire (78)
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
249 more quotes about aging
Hans Urs von Balthasar (2)
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
218 wisdom & wit regarding beauty
Otto von Bismarck (16)
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
278 more sayings about fear
Wernher von Braun (3)
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
213 more quotes about science
Ludwig von Mises (10)
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
44 views relating to attitudes