Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • School
  • Home
  • Church

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Cannot
  • Foreign

• I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Dance

• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

  

  Muddy Waters

• What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Television
  • Beast
  • Collaborative

• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Africa

• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Law
  • Passions
  • Weapon