Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
Quotes to Explore
-
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
-
I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
-
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
-
I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
-
I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
-
I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
-
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
-
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
-
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
-
The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
-
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
-
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
-
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
-
All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
-
I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
-
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
-
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
-
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
-
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
-
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
-
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
-
Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.
-
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
-
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
