Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Thee

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • May
  • Want
  • Grow

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Best

• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Loved
  • First Time

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Territory
  • Mexico

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Past

• I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Library

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Thought

• I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Hate
  • Learning
  • Rules

• My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by livingonly my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • World
  • Die
  • Heaven

• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Saint

• At first you think, 'Gosh, monkeys, that's so kind of incredible … But you started to kind of feel a little bit, not competitive with the monkeys, but that they weren't really - they didn't really have your best interests at heart.They aren't these … They want to replace you. They're not that impressed with the opposable thumbs.'

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Heart

• Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Communication
  • Duty
  • Share

• Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lies
  • Duty
  • Thee