Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  

  Walter Map
  • Me
  • Die
  • Drinking

• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Summer
  • First
  • Kiss

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Way

• So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Long
  • Remember
  • inspirational

• Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Marriage

• The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • Sin
  • Paid

• I’ve stood at the four corners, I’ve stood at the county line and looked out past DIA, I’ve stood at the base of Devil’s Thumb, I’ve been all over that damn state and I think when I stand on stage, I feel the gravity of that.

  

  Isaac Slade The Fray
  • Stand
  • Gravity
  • Corners

• A good title is a work of a genius!

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Good
  • Work
  • Genius

• “The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.”

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • History
  • Practice
  • Military

• The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Church
  • Matter
  • Conversion

• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Consolation