Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
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• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
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• Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Life
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• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Never
  • Said

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
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• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Stop
  • Back
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• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Different

• Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • American
  • History
  • Past

• The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Democracy

• If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Mind
  • Free

• The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Good
  • American
  • Society

• I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Freedom
  • Apostles
  • Aversion