Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Characters

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Shows
  • Forgotten

• I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Journalism

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Always
  • Gift
  • Suspicious

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Control

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Design

• 'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Good
  • Children
  • Past

• To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave. The world would not be if not for my offspring. I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • May
  • Brave

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Lies

• Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Celebrate

• You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Win
  • Lazy
  • Means

• The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Painting

• The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Change
  • Behavior
  • Military Clock

• A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Grace
  • Error