Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

  

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• I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

  

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• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  

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• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

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• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

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• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

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• My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

  

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• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

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• The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

  

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• Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

  

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• It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!

  

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• I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

  

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• Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

  

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• Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

  

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• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

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• Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

  

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• If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

  

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• I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

  

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• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

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• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

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• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Face
  • Tyrant
  • Time Is