Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
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  • Excited

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
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• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
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  • Know
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• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
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• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
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• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Business
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Pace

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Pretty

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • God
  • Women
  • Strong

• I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

  

  Ricky Schroder
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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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