Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Familiar

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Regret

• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Myself
  • Deep
  • Moral

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Internet
  • Information

• Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Important
  • Kids
  • History

• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

  

  Peter Diamandis

• Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Long
  • Band

• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • World
  • Failure
  • Defeat

• For seventeen months I have cried aloud calling you back to your lair. I hurled myself at the hangman's foot. You are my son, changed into nightmare. Confusion occupies the world, and I am powerless to tell somebody brute from something human, or on what day the word spells, 'Kill!'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • World
  • Son

• I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?

  

  Colin Salmon
  • World
  • Family
  • Home

• The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Present
  • Vulcanism