Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Driving
  • Never Forget

• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity

• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Duty
  • Rewrite

• My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Growing

• It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • People
  • Culture

• Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 'Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.' '

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Remember
  • Father

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I can't tell anyone to vote.

  

  David A. Siegel

• I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Up
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Today
  • Ideology

• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Simple
  • Reason
  • Drink

• I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Reason

• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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