Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Rude

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Opportunity
  • Wife
  • Celebrity

• I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Health

• The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Hand

• Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

  

  John Gardner
  • Great
  • Things
  • Leadership

• The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Soul
  • Man

• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Space
  • Place

• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wisdom
  • Goodness
  • Filth

• In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Free
  • Gods
  • Governed

• I went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It's very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Sex
  • Girls
  • Date

• I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Good
  • Man
  • Control

• It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.

  

  Eugene Shvidler
  • Grew Up
  • Communism
  • Don't Love

• My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fair
  • Wide
  • Inheritance