Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Church
  • Bible

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Job
  • Friends
  • London

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Day

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Support
  • Wife

• As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.

  

  Akon
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Perfect

• It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

  

  Lisa Hannigan
  • Music

• Failure's a natural part of life.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Life
  • Failure

• I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. … Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual … but everything is sexual … but alcohol.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Why

• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Rule
  • Purification
  • Self-assessment

• Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Simple
  • Difficult
  • Films

• At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

  

  Dave Marr
  • Feeling
  • Heaven
  • Would

• We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Accidents
  • Transportation
  • Fatigue

• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Spirit
  • Desert
  • Breath