Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Time
  • Train

• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Time
  • America
  • Change

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • History
  • Past

• I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Travel

• I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Ups And Downs

• When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Time
  • College

• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Compromise

• You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Food

• I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Hate

• That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Experience
  • Peace

• Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Negative

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Mirror