Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Parents
  • Hurricane
  • Spoken

• I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

  

  Delphine Arnault
  • Done
  • Father
  • Fashion

• Politics has been a roller coaster, but I'll never look back and say, 'Why did I do it?' In fact, if my son decided to join politics tomorrow, he has my full and unconditional support.

  

  Chiranjeevi
  • Why
  • Support
  • Son

• What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Truth
  • Amount
  • Spoken

• Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Music
  • Words
  • Way

• I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.

  

  Arsenius the Great
  • Silent
  • Spoken
  • Repented

• There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance to it; that He has spoken first; that, as in a palimpsest, deep, deep below all the writing of doubt and unbelief is the writing of God, and shall remain there, either in an eternity of blessedness or anguish.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • God
  • Fact
  • Spoken

• Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

  

  Charles Darling
  • Truth
  • More
  • Spoken

• People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Understand
  • Rather
  • Spoken

• Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Song
  • Trouble
  • Resist

• I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Air

• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Cool
  • Deep

• I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Reputation
  • Worldwide

• My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Home
  • Leave
  • Foolishness

• What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Man
  • Free
  • Desert

• Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Suppose
  • Wildflower

• In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).

  

  Kay Arthur
  • People
  • Evil
  • Tree

• I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Father

• Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Faith
  • Times
  • Weak

• I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Life
  • Father
  • Forward

• Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Politics

• Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Spoken
  • Self-will
  • Arouses