Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only

• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • World
  • Game
  • Imagine

• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Future

• I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Die
  • Reason

• Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Imagine
  • Satisfying
  • Wow

• When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Job
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • World
  • Music
  • Voice

• Generally speaking, there's a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage. It's not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is - imagine the cartilage of game meat.If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, "What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire," I'd be like, "That's moose nose!"

  

  Adam Richman
  • Game
  • Car
  • Imagine

• Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Imagine

• Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Imagine

• Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Amazing
  • Imagine
  • Possible

• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Problem

• Four inch nails is more like it!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nails

• If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Charity
  • Helps
  • Spoils

• It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • People
  • Fun
  • Nice

• Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Imagine
  • Conceive
  • Simpler