V., Charles : Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Vail, Theodore N. : Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Valery, Paul : The trouble with the times is that the future just isn't what it used to be!
Valery, Paul : If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today,' we sigh.
Valery, Paul : The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Valery, Paul : One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.
Valery, Paul : What others think of us would be of little moment had it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Valery, Paul : A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Varro, Marcus Terentius : The gods help those who help themselves.
Vaughan, Bill : Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Veblen, Thorstein : Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Veterans, Military : For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
Vidal, Gore : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since.
Vidal, Gore : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisefor the poor and socialism for the rich.
Vidal, Gore : The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
Vidal, Gore : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich.
Vidal, Gore : It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them.
Vidal, Gore : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since.
Vidal, Gore : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisfor the poor and socialism for the rich.
Vidal, Gore : A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Vidal, Gore : Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.
Vie, Natalia : We don’t need to see where the staircase leads to take the first step.
Vigny, Alfred De : History is a novel whose author is the people.
Vigny, Alfred De : History is a novel whose author is the people.
Vincent, J.H. : There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
Vinci, Leonardo Da : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Vinci, Leonardo Da : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Vinci, Leonardo Da : Our life is made by the death of others.
Vinci, Leonardo Da : He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Vinci, Leonardo Da : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Viscott, David : There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
Viscott, David : To love and feel loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Vivekananda, Swamiji : Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Character develops in the full current of human life.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : The unnatural - that too is natural.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Character [develops] in the full current of human life.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Von, Johann Wolfgang : There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Vonnegut, Kurt : I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Vonnegut, Kurt : Participation in the arts makes the soul grow. That’s how you grow a soul.
Vonnegut, Kurt : Participating in the arts--drawing, dancing, and all that---makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul.
Vonnegut, Kurt : Participating in the arts--drawing, dancing, and all that---makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul.
Vries, Peter De : The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Vygotsky, Lev : Through others, we become ourselves.