Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
Laura Innes -
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
Safra A. Catz -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress -
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu -
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens -
To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
Raghav Bahl -
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Salman Rushdie -
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
Pablo Picasso
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon -
Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Andrew Marvell -
I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
Clemence Poesy -
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot -
If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.
Eric Davis -
He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
Alan K. Simpson
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
Deborah Eisenberg -
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
Maria Monk -
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
H. R. McMaster -
Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.
Laurence Fishburne -
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
Marina Abramovic -
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe