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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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
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There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
Tanith Lee
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'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
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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
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In shallow shoals, English soles do it Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it.
Cole Porter
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
Mark Addy
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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
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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
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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
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As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?
Bill Hader
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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
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My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
Donald Freed
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David Eddings: I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?Markus Persson: Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.
Markus Persson
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People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
Ray Bradbury
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I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.
Drew Carey
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It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.
William S. Burroughs
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
