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.

  

  Barry Levinson
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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.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
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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.

  

  Quico Canseco
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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.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
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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.

  

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

  

  Walter Hill
  • 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
  • Love
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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.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
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• I'm just a working actor.

  

  Clive Owen

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

  

  Angie Thomas
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• I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
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• We want to try to have a productive parliament to focus on issues Canadians care about, ... If there is no significant action in the days ahead, we will have to make our choice.

  

  Jack Layton
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• In the change of years, in the coil of things, In the clamour and rumour of life to be, We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
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• A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Up

• 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