Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
Karen Gillan -
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Paris Hilton -
If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
Kapil Sibal -
I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
Alicia Keys -
Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.
B. J. Porter -
I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.
Eddie Charles Jones
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I am confident that whatever testing is performed on these items, it will substantiate that Mr. Westfall has done nothing wrong and is in no way responsible for Ms. Jones' disappearance. Mr. Westfall and his family ... continue to pray for Ms. Jones' safe return.
J. M. Roberts -
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare -
Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
William Carey -
There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
William Congreve -
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
Wim Wenders -
For women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.
Sarah Fielding
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I actually go to the gym much more now than I did when I was on Buffy. I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, 'Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?' And I always say, 'No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night.'
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.
Ernst T. Krebs -
As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.
Suzan DelBene -
Part of you is the wind,” he murmured. “Oui, that is true. But even the wind sometimes rests.” Shaking her head, she slid her hand around the back of his neck, soaking in the intrinsically male heat of his skin. “Then consider me an endless storm.
Nalini Singh -
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
Gary Bauer -
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
William Shakespeare