Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Death
  • Space
  • Dead

• I have been vain since birth.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Birth
  • Been
  • Vain

• He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Why
  • Daily

• Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Band

• Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

  

  David Mamet
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

  

  Penny Junor
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Fun

• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Words
  • Deception

• A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Joy

• I think president after president has always stood behind Israel. We always will. They're our ally there. And we have to do whatever we can help them to protect their citizens.

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • Help

• It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Life
  • Home
  • Joy

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

  

  James P. Cannon
  • Live
  • Country
  • Today

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Giving

• Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Monster
  • Devoured