Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Hope
• Tears
• Flowers
• Life's Field

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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Age
  • Working

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Fashion

• When it gets down to it you just have to act.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • You
  • Down
  • Act

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Shoes

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Amazing
  • Wine

• He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lonely

• Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Together
  • Help
  • Support

• I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

  

  Artemisia Gentileschi
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • American
  • Hope

• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Blessed

• Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Family

• One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Tears
  • Flowers