Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

  

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• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Art
  • Passion
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• There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

  

  Machine Gun Kelly
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• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Grace
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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Word
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• Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

  

  Earl Paulk
  • Men
  • Generation
  • Generations

• There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leave
  • Sect
  • Gandhism

• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Possess
  • Riches
  • Hurtful

• Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Lead

• It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact that in television, characters don't have to say things. In comics, people have to say I feel this way, or I want to do this, and you can do so much with gesture and movement and facial expressions that you can do sometimes facial expression stuff in comics, but you can do so more if somebody can move around without actually speaking. That leads to a different style of writing between the two mediums.

  

  Chris Black
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• Re-forming after the chaos,” I said, remembering Raquel’s words. “Choosing what we’ll do with how things are now, who we’ll be in this new world where the only magic left is what we make ourselves.

  

  Kiersten White
  • World
  • Remember
  • Magic

• A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Vain
  • Applause
  • Accommodates