Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Maybe

• When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Emotions
  • Come
  • Go

• The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Soul
  • Woman
  • Emotional

• Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Too Much
  • Authenticity

• I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Always

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  

  Ice T
  • Family
  • Father
  • Brother

• Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Successful

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Italian
  • Warm

• I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Struggling

• One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Christmas

• I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Profession
  • Homebody

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• We have at least 12 security apparatuses that cannot be controlled by anybody.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fear
  • Loyalty

• You have yourself to blame.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Yourself
  • Blame

• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Men
  • Quality

• I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • Important
  • Government

• The best armor is to keep out of range.

  

  Abraham J. Twerski
  • Range
  • Armor
  • Keep Out

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe