Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach -
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson -
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson -
Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
Eddie Marsan
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln -
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
Kariya Munda -
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
H. R. McMaster -
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides -
I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
Felicity Jones -
I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
Ed Westwick -
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke
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A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
Ted Cruz -
I wasn't a great athlete.
Daniel Bryan -
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
Eddie Campbell -
Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
Luke Rhinehart -
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe