Goethe Friendship Quotes & Sayings

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist. — Orson Scott Card

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. — Stanley Milgram

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No guilt or anger or longing changes that. — Ava Dellaira

The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit? — Andre Maurois

There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was, "Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips" (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever walked the earth. But seeing God, he sees also, abrupt and stark and grief-making, his own duplicity. Then God does what only God can do: he sears his lips clean (Isaiah 6:6-7). And herein lies our hope: truly seeing God, we truly see ourselves, in all our woe-begotten duplicity; but crying out to God, we are truly and greatly helped. — Mark Buchanan

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature. — John Ratzenberger

Language is not the barrier, the heart is".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every director I've ever admired has a beard. — Peter Horton

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on. — Denise Van Outen

In comradeship is danger countered best. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. — Ta-Nehisi Coates