Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Self-Sufficiency
• Fleece

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• I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Always
  • Cinema

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'How far off,' I sat and wondered.Started hummin' a song from 1962.Ain't it funny how the night moves,When you just don't seem to have as much to lose.Strange how the night moves, with autumn closin' in.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Song
  • Night
  • Funny

• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Strong
  • River

• Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • World

• I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

  

  Bonnie Hunt

• I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Success

• The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.

  

  Dennis L. McKiernan
  • Up
  • Vision

• I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• I just want to tell black stories.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Black

• I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

  

  Philip Green
  • Business

• I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

  

  Jillian Rose Reed
  • Beach
  • Bike

• Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

  

  Colin O'Donoghue
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Real

• The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

  

  James Salter

• I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Trying
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  

  Kevin Cramer
  • Smile
  • Optimistic

• The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

  

  Ariel Durant
  • Past
  • Present
  • Rolled

• Newel and Doren had inexhaustibly consumed milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, nachos, pretzels, nuts, beef jerky, trail mix, soda, doughnuts, candy bars, cookies, crackers, and aerosol cheese. Of the fifty most impressive belches Seth had witnessed in his life, all had occurred on this road trip.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Occurred
  • Witnessed
  • Milkshake

• Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Children
  • House
  • Self-Sufficiency

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Easy
  • Genius
  • Mountain

• The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Blows
  • Self-Sufficiency
  • Fleece