Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Friend
  • Hug

• If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Like

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Great
  • School
  • Fun

• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Friend

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Friend

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Man

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Friend
  • Husband
  • Dinner

• Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Friends
  • Change

• My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'

  

  R. Kelly
  • Friend
  • End
  • Trapped

• Cary Grant would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience on a set. I could have been talking to my best girl-friend.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I actually crashed the car I learned to drive on. It was a friend of mine's car.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Friend
  • Car

• I am who I am, and I can't change that. It's not something I've labored over.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers

• We, and the universe we live in, produce and operate in a sea of natural and unnatural electrical and magnetic fields. The earth, for example, pulses at about 10 Hz, like a small engine. Our bodies, as you may remember from chapter 1, are really electromagnetic machines. We simply can't move a muscle or produce a thought without an electrical impulse - and wherever there is electricity, a magnetic field is also produced, which is why we link the two together into one word: electromagnetic.

  

  Ann Louise Gittleman
  • Universe
  • Field
  • Impulse

• All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Different
  • Women
  • Confidence

• Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Friend
  • Theory