Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes to Explore
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
Dan Gilbert
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell
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I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
Alicia Keys
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I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.
Barack Obama
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.
Lao Tzu
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I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
George Washington
