Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • She
  • Business
  • Fun

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Days
  • Around

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Process

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• 'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Me
  • Feelings
  • Feel

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• We each have the kind of children we deserve.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Children

• But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Ideas
  • Hours
  • Flight

• A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Song

• Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Love
  • Check

• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rule