Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

  

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• Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.

  

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• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

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• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

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• I've served on the International Relations Committee.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

  

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• Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

  

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• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
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• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.

  

  Anne Lamott
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• There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

  

  Aleister Crowley
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• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  

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• I'm just a working actor.

  

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• From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

  

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

  

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• I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.

  

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• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  

  Thomas Hood
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• Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
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• These are some of my awards - an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Feelings
  • Possession