Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Military
  • Liberals

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guitar
  • Times
  • Bass

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • Dying

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • World
  • Day
  • Better

• There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Enjoyed
  • Selfishness

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • Long
  • Talent

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Man
  • Reflection

• There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Satisfaction
  • Object

• Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Necessity
  • Elevates