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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • School
  • Bad
  • Learning

• My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

  

  Donald Freed
  • Mother
  • Peace
  • Path

• I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Party
  • Single

• I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Mind
  • California

• To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rap

• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Fate
  • Gain
  • Superiority

• Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Remember
  • Organization
  • Manufacturing

• I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fool
  • Made
  • Preacher

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe