Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Technology
  • Kind
  • Chinese

• I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

  

  Tan Le
  • World
  • Fear
  • Fall

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Earth
  • Next
  • Allow

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Passion

• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Me
  • Right
  • Price

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  

  Mae West
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Ready

• Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Statistics

• The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Look

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I think it's about being really smart about hitting the right consumer product spaces at the right time.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Time
  • Smart

• L.A. has brought so many opportunities and allowed me to reach the level of success I've been blessed to achieve thus far. L.A. can definitely open a lot of doors for anyone focused on achieving their passion and dreams.

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • Success
  • Passion
  • Blessed

• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • People
  • Art
  • College

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Art

• In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting.

  

  Georg Solti
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Lost

• There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Science
  • Patriotic