Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
-
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
-
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
-
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
-
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
-
I think that liberals need to grow up.
-
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
-
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
-
At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
-
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
-
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
-
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
-
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
-
I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
-
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
-
'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
-
I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.
-
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
-
Vidal is determined to be a) in the thick of things, and b) above the fray. He knows everybody and he doesn't want to know anybody. He has had lovers by the thousand while doing 'nothing' - deliberately, at least - to please the other.
-
We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
-
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
