Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Work
  • Train
  • Cats

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Work
  • Society
  • Cats

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

  

  Raekwon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Heart

• The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • May
  • Want
  • Evil

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Pet
  • Cats

• With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Think
  • Discover

• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Ears

• Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Fish

• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Animal

• In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Lyrics
  • Saying
  • Cats

• I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Up
  • Three
  • Dogs

• There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

  

  Joel Grey

• The sport is about finding the horses. But to find another Valegro is impossible.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin

• Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Work
  • God
  • Way

• Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

  

  Aristotle
  • Female
  • MAle
  • Advances

• Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

  

  Rumi
  • Die
  • Yourself
  • Argue

• It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Decision

• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Children
  • College

• Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cats
  • Reply
  • Retaliate