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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: german
Birth: August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Topics

Destiny Wishes Way Beyond Order Own

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

Joanne Woodward

Myself Humor Sense Of Humor Important

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

Jesse Eisenberg

Time Myself Yourself Child Think

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Progress Financial End Lost Crisis

As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

Money Free Problem Said Before

Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.

Matthew Stafford

Great Training Fun End Year Games

The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.

Service Fire Think Say Matter First

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

History Dating Immigration America

I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing.

Guitar Play Riding Sing Like Hike

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I Am I Am What I Am Know Sure Am

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Time Research Writing Book Reading

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Loved Achieve Fortunate Hated

The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

Children Time Me Baby Writing Award

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