Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes to Explore
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
Usain Bolt -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
Samira Wiley -
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
Hanna Rosin -
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 -
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
Gary Hamel -
Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Orson Scott Card -
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
Lucy Larcom -
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
Brady Corbet -
What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.
Edward Boyden -
Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is to keep Americans safe, to make sure we don't have a failed state in a region. It's not our responsibility to reconstruct Afghanistan.
Martha McSally
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The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
Lionel Barber -
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.
Danny McBride -
Adequacy is sufficient.
Adam Osborne -
It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.
Jake Tapper -
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe