Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Together
  • Help
  • Waiting

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Happy
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Today
  • Rock
  • Path

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• Work is what saves you.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • You
  • Saves

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Women
  • College
  • Dating

• Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Silence

• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Moments
  • Religious

• I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

  

  Neal Schon
  • People
  • Guy
  • Alone

• For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Freedom
  • Prayer
  • Judge

• He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Passion