Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
Abraham Verghese -
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
Rachel Tucker -
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
Paloma Elsesser -
I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
S. J. Rozan -
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Ralph Fiennes -
I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
Olivier Theyskens -
When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
Dane DeHaan -
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
Galen Rowell
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz -
There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
Dani Shapiro -
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin -
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Kuang -
When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
Rainbow Rowell -
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica McKellar
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When I was a kid, those were carefree days without much pressure.
Patty Smyth -
There was a physical quality in us resembling the power of electricity or of the magnet, by which when a pair approached within a striking distance they flew together like the needle to the pole or like two objects in electric experiments.
John Adams -
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)
C. S. Lewis -
Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
Avi -
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Friedrich Nietzsche