Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine, guard it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  

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• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
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  • You
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• I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Myself
  • See
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• The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Destroy
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• To me it's like starting all over, ... If you've watched any of the games I've played at the point guard position, it's honestly hard for other teams to stop it, because I'm putting pressure on guys. We don't always have to come down and rely on getting points off a set offense. We get a chance to run up and down the court and get a lot of easy baskets.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Games

• The sky's the limit for him, ... He's a tough guard. He's got the best coach in the world on his side.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • World
  • Sky
  • Coach

• The first step now is for Barrymore to make an absolutely clean breast of it and tell everything that he knows, because up to now he has told a very partial story.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Up
  • Story
  • Breast

• The best way to eat is to eat lots of different kinds of foods. Except for breast milk, no one food is perfect.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Different
  • Food
  • Perfect

• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Kid
  • Guard
  • Brains

• We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Humans
  • Materials
  • Haste

• The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Independence
  • Breast

• To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

  

  William Blake
  • Breast
  • Stole
  • Cupid

• There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Way
  • Guard
  • Flattery

• And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Army
  • Guard
  • Leading

• In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

  

  Dennis DeYoung Styx
  • Innocence
  • Haste
  • Desert Moon

• Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Little
  • Haste
  • Multiply

• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  

  George Washington
  • Patriotism
  • Pretend
  • Guard

• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Character
  • Habits
  • Guard

• Foxy knows of him. (Flint's) mother still teaches here, so he's around. He goes to the games and works out in the gym. He's around all the kids.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Games

• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Dream

• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Walking
  • Weakness
  • Plague

• If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • God
  • Slave
  • Circles

• Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

  

  Asvaghosa
  • Attention
  • Thoughts
  • Substance

• Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine, guard it well.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Guard
  • Haste
  • Breast