Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Hope
• Tears
• Flowers
• Life's Field

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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Age
  • Working

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Fashion

• When it gets down to it you just have to act.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • You
  • Down
  • Act

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Shoes

• All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • World
  • Child
  • Welcome

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Amazing
  • Wine

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Girl

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Tears
  • Flowers