Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
Patrick Kane -
In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
Carla Hall -
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
Vikram Seth -
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
Barbara Demick -
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany -
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
Lara Pulver
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I was a sports kid.
Mahershala Ali -
I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
Ragnar Frisch -
You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
Peter Billingsley -
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.
Paulo Coelho -
People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart
Stevie Wonder
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
Van Cliburn -
The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
Keanu Reeves -
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Paddy Chayefsky -
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
Lord Byron
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush -
We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
George Washington -
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Octave Mirbeau -
But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey -
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe