Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Work Hard

• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Try
  • I Can

• I used to be a bitch. I met her at Hooters. She didn't have big boobs, but she could turn her head in a circle just like an owl. (p. 2).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Owl

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Earth
  • Waiting
  • Baseball

• He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Should

• Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Strong

• The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • Value
  • Devil

• To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Life
  • Good
  • Experience

• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Heaven
  • Destroy

• Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

  

  John McCrae
  • Rain
  • Bird
  • Restless

• In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Slave
  • First Place

• The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Crime

• I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Play
  • Training
  • Chess

• All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Play

• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Me
  • Police
  • Ironic

• Taste is so much more important than fashion.

  

  Hattie Carnegie
  • Fashion
  • Taste

• We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mankind
  • Anxious