Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai -
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Zac Brown Band
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe -
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
Hal Hartley -
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
Barack Obama -
It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer -
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
Mark Steyn -
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Muhammad Ali -
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
Albert Einstein -
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
J. H. Wyman -
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Lao Tzu -
I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
Lance Loud -
King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
Plutarch
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I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.
Ed Byrne -
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Washington Allston -
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe