Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Courage
• Honor

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • American
  • Friend
  • Best

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Age
  • Kid

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Way
  • Flowers
  • Bee

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • See
  • Week

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Folly

• There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • First
  • Playing
  • Living

• I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Desire
  • Best
  • Doing

• I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Grow

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Gods
  • Answer

• I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Lost

• The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Important
  • Writing

• I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Money
  • Language
  • Theater

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football.

  

  Charles Woodson
  • Football
  • Yourself
  • Win

• Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Courage