Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
Camille Paglia
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris
It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
Malala Yousafzai
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner
I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Tammy Duckworth
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Lara St. John
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Rand Paul
Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
Nathan Deal
I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
Gabrielle Aplin
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
Aristotle
We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
Xavier Becerra
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
Agesilaus II
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe