Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • True
  • Age
  • Be True

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
  • Standing

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Say
  • Felt
  • Did

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

  

  Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • Time
  • Passion
  • Animals

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Voice
  • Moment
  • Spanish

• I want to be sublimely happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy

• Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Goodbye
  • Love You
  • I Don't Love You Anymore

• Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • She
  • Bad

• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  

  Alice James
  • Life
  • Intervals
  • Density

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

  

  David Sills
  • People
  • God
  • Forever

• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Moon
  • Novel
  • Ultimate

• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Reflection

• I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Born

• Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Belief
  • Opinions
  • Oblivion