Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
