Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

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• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

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• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  

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• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

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• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

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• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

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• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

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• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

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• When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

  

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• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

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• Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

  

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• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

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• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

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• 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

  

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• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

  

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• I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

  

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• Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

  

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• Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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