Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Me
  • Drama

• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Patience
  • Natural
  • Producer

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • High
  • Man

• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Wrestling

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Change

• I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Doing
  • Start

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Language
  • Same

• King Aillas talks softly and with great politeness; he has the uncomfortable skill of calling one a false-hearted blackguard, a liar, a cheat and a villain, but making it seem a fulsome compliment.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Great
  • King
  • Liar

• In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.

  

  Kenny Troutt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Partner

• False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • False
  • Fears
  • Hopes

• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Spirit

• I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Courage
  • Physical
  • Asked

• The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche