Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Should
  • Writer
  • Vulgar

• I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Lost

• I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Time
  • Children
  • Career

• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Job
  • Teacher

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Way
  • You
  • Same

• Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Test
  • Cricket

• I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Home
  • Japanese

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Beauty

• If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Me
  • Alone

• 'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Power
  • True

• 'At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt,' stated the Nolde. 'We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Quality
  • Positive

• To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Color
  • Purple

• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Guy
  • Moon

• I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Bedroom

• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Country
  • Way
  • Democracy

• The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Unknown
  • Dumb

• I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Food

• Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Future

• Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe