Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

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

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

Joe Trohman

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

Joe Trippi

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

Joe Walsh

I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

Joe Walsh

(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.

Joe Vitale

When you can feel that you already have what you want, then you will attract what you want. In fact, you already have it. Just feel it now and feel it real.

Joe Vitale

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

Joe Manchin

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

Joe Manganiello

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

Joe Manganiello

When I'm training for 'True Blood,' I don't eat any sugar except for some fruit here and there. So it's no sugar, no bread, no real carbs all day.

Joanne Froggatt

When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

Joanne Froggatt

I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

Joaquin Phoenix

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

Joe Rogan

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

Joe Frazier

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

Joe Eszterhas

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

Joan D. Vinge

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Joan Didion

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Jim Zalesky

It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.

Jim Woodring

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Jim Woodring

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Jimmie Johnson

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong...'. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion.

Jim Hill

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jim Knight

Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.