Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Frailty

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• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

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• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
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• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
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• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  

  Harold Pinter
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• I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
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• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Live
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• My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.

  

  Jim Brown
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• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  

  William Shakespeare
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• We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Important
  • Heart
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• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Sight
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• Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Memory
  • Frailty