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

• You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Time
  • Song
  • Past

• Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'Hedwig' film, as did Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, who had a weird butch queer feeling about him. His films almost flirted with camp but in an extremely realistic acting way.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Feeling
  • Weird
  • Gay

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Mind
  • Study
  • Logic

• To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Study
  • Cases
  • Subjects

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe