Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Faith

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Soul
  • Culture

• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • You
  • Try

• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Minutes

• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Go

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Support

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Up
  • Military
  • End

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• What we are seeing here is environmental injustice.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Environmental
  • Here
  • Injustice

• I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Wife

• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Its been a crazy ride. A couple of tournaments ago I wasn't even supposed to be here. But I got a Major and everything is coming full circle now. It's a nerve wracking situation. I just got the luckiest break of all time on that last shot.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
  • Crazy
  • Couple
  • Break

• A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wife
  • Gift
  • Paradise