The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (187 page)

Goering, Hermann
1893–1946

1
We have no butter…but I ask you—would you rather have butter or guns?…preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

speech at Hamburg, 1936, in W. Frischauer
Goering
(1951) ch. 10.

2
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to…a
total solution
of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

instructions to Heydrich, 31 July 1941.

 
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749–1832

1
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
Man will err while yet he strives.

Faust
pt. 1 (1808) "Prolog im Himmel"

2
Entbehren sollst Du! sollst entbehren!
Das ist der ewige Gesang.
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself!
That is the song that never ends.

Faust
pt. 1 (1808) "Studierzimmer"

3
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie
Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum.
All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

Faust
pt. 1 (1808) "Studierzimmer"

4
Meine Ruh' ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer.
My peace is gone,
My heart is heavy.

Faust
pt. 1 (1808) "Gretchen am Spinnrad"

5
Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.
The deed is all, the glory nothing.

Faust
pt. 2 (1832) "Hochgebirg"

6
Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
Eternal Woman draws us upward.

Faust
pt. 2 (1832) "Hochgebirg" closing words

7
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Torquato Tasso
(1790) act 1, sc. 2

8
Die Wahlverwandtschaften.Elective affinities.

title of novel (1809)

9
Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh'.
Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Wanderers Nachtlied
(1821)

10
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?
Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn.
Know you the land where the lemon-trees bloom? In the dark foliage the gold oranges glow.

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
(1795–6) bk. 3, ch. 1

11
Mehr Licht!More light!
abbreviated version of "Macht doch den zweiten Fensterladen auch auf, damit mehr Licht hereinkomme [Open the second shutter, so that more light can come in]")

K. W. Müller
Goethes letze literarische Thätigkeit
(1832)

 
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Goldberg, Isaac
1887–1938

1
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

in
The Reflex
October 1927

 
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Goldberg, Whoopi
1949–

1
I dislike this idea that if you're a black person in America then you must be called an African-American. I'm not an African. I'm an American. Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

in
Irish Times
25 April 1998 "Quotes of the Week"

 
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Goldman, Emma
1869–1940

1
Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.

Anarchism and Other Essays
(1910)

 
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