Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Strong

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Morning

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Giving

• When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Great
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
  • American
  • Earth

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Ambition
  • Partner

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Earth

• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Home
  • Earth

• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I'll do that. But it's not going to be my crutch.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Cool
  • Makeup

• Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

  

  William Shatner
  • Should
  • Minutes
  • Ultimate

• My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • School
  • Friend
  • Best

• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Earth
  • Christ
  • Divine