Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Different
  • She
  • Happy

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Ice Cream

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Reasonable

• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Idea
  • Original

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Wish
  • Bored

• I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hate
  • Light

• I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Interesting
  • Supernatural

• As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.

  

  Cress Williams
  • Life
  • Men
  • Hero

• Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

  

  Beto O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Job

• Because I practice often with my children at home.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Children
  • Home
  • Practice

• I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Movie
  • Scary

• I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Pirate

• Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Drama

• There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Life

• If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • World
  • Parents
  • Fighting

• Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

  

  Augustus Toplady
  • Heaven
  • Grace
  • Gracious

• I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

  

  Lee Grant

• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Done
  • War
  • Conclusion

• We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe