Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Exercise
  • Temptation
  • Pains

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stand
  • Temptation
  • Liberal

• 'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Character
  • Question

• Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Temptation

• There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Temptation

• There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Lazy
  • Temptation

• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • May
  • Power
  • Struggle

• It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Temptation

• Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

  

  Lyman Abbott
  • Life
  • Temptation
  • March

• Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Decision

• Temptation to behave is terrible.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Temptation

• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Quality
  • Suffering
  • Positive

• Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Up
  • God
  • Decision

• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Door
  • Devil
  • Temptation

• There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Different
  • Temptation

• Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • Confidence
  • Need

• Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Great
  • American
  • Couple

• I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

  

  James Turrell
  • Work
  • True

• I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Temptation
  • Renounce
  • Refrain