Valrieksts Quotes & Sayings

I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism. — Donald J. Trump

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies. — Boris Karloff

Capitalist production ... was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this. — Friedrich Engels

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. — Caroline Kennedy

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged. — Frances O'Grady

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed. — Robert Browning

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves. — William Hazlitt

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. — Jim Sullivan

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. — Daniel Keys Moran

There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges. — Jo Walton

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was. — Nick Kroll