Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Hanna Rosin -
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
Adam Clarke -
There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
Oleg Kulik -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. Priestley -
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
Zach Anner
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
Zhang Zhidong -
We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
Kate Brown -
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
Nat Wolff -
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion -
When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
Taylor Lautner -
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
Irwin Winkler
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell -
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
Eartha Kitt -
If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
Carine Roitfeld -
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
Tea Obreht -
The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
J. G. Ballard -
There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
Hillary Clinton
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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
Branford Marsalis -
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
Chellie Pingree -
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Twyla Tharp -
To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.
Emil Cioran -
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
Andy Grove -
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe