Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Period
  • Working
  • Everything

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

  

  Becky G
  • Gold
  • Having
  • Regular

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • City
  • Moving
  • Perspective

• I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Father

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

• Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Energy
  • New

• 'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Community
  • Government
  • Feel

• I repeat the question, 'Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State Government?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question

• It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Time
  • World

• She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• The three-toed tree-toadSings his sweet odeTo the moon;The funny bunnyAnd his honeyTrip in tune.

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • Funny
  • Sweet
  • Moon

• Since the 1950s, the key equation of quantum gravity has been called the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Bryce DeWitt and John Wheeler wrote it down, but in all the time since then, no one had been able to solve it. We found we could solve it exactly, and in fact we found an infinite number of exact solutions.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time

• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

  

  Alan Ball

• As silly as it seems to all of us, it has made a difference in a lot of children?s lives.

  

  Dawn Wells
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Silly

• That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.

  

  Rey Mysterio
  • Different
  • Sports
  • Came

• One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe