Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

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• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

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• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

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• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
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• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.

  

  Bono U2
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• I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... but I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high-it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.

  

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• The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

  

  Lester Cole
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• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
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• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  

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• If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

  

  David Green
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• My animals are a really important part of my life.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
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• We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  

  Homer
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• “Our invisible enemy plants a sinful thought in the soul of a person, and then records it as if it were the person’s own thought, so that later he can accuse the person at the terrible judgement of God.”

  

  Ambrose of Optina
  • Thought
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• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Force
  • Attain