Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

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• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Talent

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Long
  • History
  • Nature

• I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Doing
  • Young
  • Wanted

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Opinion

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Secrets

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Cool

• Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Power
  • Political
  • Earth

• Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • World
  • You
  • Dirty

• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Promise

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Done
  • Singing

• 'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Men
  • Defeat

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • American
  • Parents

• The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Value