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.

  

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

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

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

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
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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
  • Job
  • Food
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• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

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

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
  • Want
  • Giving

• 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
  • Person
  • Open

• 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
  • Scary

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

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• 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
  • Competition
  • Forward

• 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
  • Time
  • Money

• 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
  • Day
  • Media

• 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
  • People
  • Home
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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
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

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

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• 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
  • Silly
  • Bothered

• Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Hate
  • Songs
  • Videos

• Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

  

  William Faulkner
  • God
  • Believed
  • Sport

• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Hope
  • Reading

• ... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • American
  • Depression

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Prayer
  • Object