Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson -
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
Damien Hirst -
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Irwin Shaw -
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
Vaclav Havel -
I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
Diana Ross -
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Octave Mirbeau
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I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
Anderson Cooper -
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
Al Pacino -
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
Alan Rickman -
Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.
Laini Taylor -
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Quintilian -
Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".
Barack Obama
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
Barack Obama -
We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
Barack Obama -
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
Rachel Carson -
If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
Israel ben Eliezer -
Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
Epictetus -
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
L. Ron Hubbard
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All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary
Gautama Buddha -
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Arthur Gordon Webster -
A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.
Bai Juyi -
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
Friedrich Nietzsche