Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Normal

• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Real
  • Need
  • Face

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Mind
  • America

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Family
  • Happiness

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
  • Enlightened
  • He

• There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Book
  • Wishes

• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • People

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Men
  • Present

• 'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Job
  • Reflection

• Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dance

• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Trust

• Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Simplicity

• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • History
  • Earth

• Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Great
  • Mind

• The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

  

  David Mamet
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Trust

• Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• He's also one of those friends who doesn't impress easily. And so if you get a good reaction from him, it actually means something. So it was important for me to hear from him something about the script, whether it was good or bad.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Friends
  • Impress
  • Easily

• When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Real

• And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heaven
  • Step By Step
  • Path Of Life