Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
Patrick Lencioni -
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike -
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
Fidel Castro -
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M. H. Abrams
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
Adam DeVine -
I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
D. B. Weiss -
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac -
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor -
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
Patrick J. Adams -
I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
Bebe Rexha
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It's brutal out on the football field.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
Randi Weingarten -
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
Kate Middleton
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
Gale Harold -
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte -
When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.
Emma Curtis Hopkins -
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
Blaise Pascal -
Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
Sean Penn -
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe