Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Change
  • Goal

• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Mountain
  • Candle

• Language is a social art.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Art
  • Language
  • Social

• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  

  William Goldman
  • Men
  • Black
  • Running

• I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Pessimistic

• Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

  

  Alfred Brendel
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Anagram

• Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.

  

  Wilhelm Keitel
  • Difficult
  • Each
  • Replace

• The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

  

  Elizabeth Towne
  • Money
  • Ideas
  • Attract

• Fox doesn't treat me any differently, and that's one thing I'm very lucky with - my network treats me like a woman, but they never make me feel like I don't fit in or anything like that, which is great. But within the industry, yeah. It's a double standard, but it's something that you have to deal with or try to make better; turn into a positive.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Trying
  • Lucky
  • Standard

• How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

  

  Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Wonder

• Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Red

• Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Christian
  • Beginning
  • Prayer

• Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Today
  • Knows

• It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Championship
  • Rings
  • Ordered

• Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mac
  • OS X Tiger
  • Longhorn

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Science

• Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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