Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Together
  • Software
  • Apple

• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Law
  • Sacrifice

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writing
  • Story
  • Short

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Improve

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Together
  • Peace
  • Fight

• I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Done
  • Now
  • Products

• I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Concept
  • Capitalist

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knowledge
  • Conviction
  • Man in Nature

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Single
  • Health

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Humor

• A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Circumstances
  • Little