Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

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• False modesty is better than none.

  

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• After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

  

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• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  

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• Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.

  

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• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

  

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• Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

  

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  • Discipline
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• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hurt
  • Lovers
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• Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

  

  William Golding
  • Cutting
  • Throat
  • Pigs

• I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

  

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  • Dangerous
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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  

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  • Stars
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• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  

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  • Home
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• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Character
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• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Trouble
  • Patience
  • Destined

• For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Quality
  • Imagination
  • Sacrifice

• Music became my refuge and then my salvation.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Music
  • Salvation
  • Refuge

• The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Wisdom
  • Wrong
  • Conventional

• Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Salvation
  • Aspiring