Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • She
  • Book

• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Grow

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Experience

• Health care should be affordable for everyone.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Everyone

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
  • More

• You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Family
  • Company
  • Run

• A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Me
  • Director
  • Him

• Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opposition
  • Other
  • Blinds

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Way

• The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Person
  • Prayer

• I go back so far I'm in front of me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Fronts

• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Four

• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Beautiful
  • Moon
  • Tree

• Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Function
  • Recognition

• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Care
  • Ego

• The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Done
  • Christian
  • Eye

• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Fool

• I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Thinking
  • Suffering
  • Disease

• I campaigned for Barack Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Help
  • Change
  • Travel

• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fools
  • United
  • Good Fortune