Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
Najib Razak -
We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
Natalie Cole -
I completely get the drag thing.
Taron Egerton -
I really like sort of disappearing.
Katey Sagal -
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
Halsey -
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey -
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. Travers -
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick -
I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
Zooey Deschanel
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields -
The tours are campaigns.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
Abraham Verghese -
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
Patricia Hewitt -
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
Carl Sagan -
L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.
Francesco Guicciardini
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Haile Selassie -
I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
Mary Steenburgen -
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie -
Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe