Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Trying
• Ugly
• Colour
• Balanced
• Ill

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• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Job
  • President
  • Ed Rendell

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Humanity

• There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Long
  • Home
  • Dream

• The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Ugly
  • Colour