Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• My Mind
• Attracted
• Cherished

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• Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Good
  • Me
  • Talk

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Good
  • Party

• That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Past
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

  

  David Elkind
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Affair
  • Unfortunate
  • Interfere

• Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • God
  • Humble
  • Thankful

• It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Action

• I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

  

  James Stewart
  • People
  • Care
  • Helping

• Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Criticism
  • Avoid
  • Easily

• My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Father
  • Sentimental

• I had my hair down for a long time. I shaved my head, you know, a couple of years ago. And, then, I started to wear my hair short, and I thought that was cool. But, at the same time, I never want to put rules down on me and say, 'OK, I do this for this and this for that.' I just don't like rules. I don't.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Hair
  • Rules
  • Long Time

• Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Mathematics

• Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.

  

  Geerhardus Vos
  • God
  • Relation
  • Redemption

• There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.

  

  William Attwood
  • Doubt
  • Relation
  • Negotiation

• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Relation
  • My Mind
  • Attracted