Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
Warren Littlefield -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
Viktor Orban -
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey -
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Hans Rosling -
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
E. Stanley Jones
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Viktor Orban -
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
Ed Koch -
I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
Rachel Kushner -
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
Walter Dean Myers -
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
Jackie Mason
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
Warren Farrell -
A notable scheme has occurred to me.
Jack Vance -
One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
Wallace Stevens -
If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.
Albert Schweitzer -
Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
Aristotle -
There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
Adoniram Judson -
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
John Barrowman -
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
Pete du Pont -
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer -
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe