Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Turquoise

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Love
  • Law

• I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Age
  • Proud

• The script is just a blueprint.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Just
  • Script
  • Blueprint

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Curiosity

• 'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• I understand why he has to do this; to prove he's a man... He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Why

• In shallow shoals, English soles do it Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it.

  

  Cole Porter
  • English

• Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

  

  Mark Addy
  • Soul

• One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • People
  • Long

• I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People

• I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • School
  • College
  • Mad

• As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

  

  Bill Hader
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

  

  David Plouffe
  • War
  • Decision

• Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • High
  • Pretty

• When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Up
  • Age
  • Rock

• That keeps Earl on his toes. If he were able to easily cross everything off, he would start to get a little cocky, I'm sure, and start to rush it a bit. Instead, he stills gets tossed around in the process, and that, to me, is an indication that he's still got a long way to go.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Process
  • Start
  • Cross

• What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

  

  William Godwin
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Explanation

• Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe