Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Actor

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Same
  • Year
  • Jeans

• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Writer
  • Actress

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• 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
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Fear
  • Stop
  • Natural

• Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Why

• The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Broken

• The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.

  

  John Calvin
  • Soul
  • Sinners
  • Image Of God

• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It's very nice if you win, but it's not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Good
  • Change
  • Nice

• I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Presence