Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
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• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
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• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
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• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
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• People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Know
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• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
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• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
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• We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Free
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• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
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• After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
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• Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
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• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  

  Barry Levinson
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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  

  James MacArthur

• The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Broken
  • Fountain
  • Pitcher

• My goal is to be the best quarterback I can be for the Colts, and hope that it's good enough.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Good
  • Hope

• 'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • English
  • Stupid

• Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Prayer
  • Object