Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Hate
  • End

• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Truth
  • English
  • Lies

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

  

  Ram Charan
  • School
  • Always
  • Principal

• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Finance

• I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Any
  • Manchester

• When I get married it will be for keeps.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Will
  • Married
  • Get Married

• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Small
  • Born

• Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • New
  • Something
  • Deportation

• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Popular
  • Master
  • Cringe

• Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Business
  • Building

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Time
  • Internet

• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • See
  • Plays
  • Musicals

• Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Small

• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  

  James Thurber
  • Understanding

• Stand close around, ye Stygian set,with Dirce in the boat conveyed,Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,That he is old and she a shade.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • She
  • Boat

• For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Good
  • Question
  • Evil

• The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

  

  Reginald Maudling
  • Influence
  • Conservative
  • Bring

• Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Runway

• Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe