Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Always
  • Moment

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Men
  • Children
  • Jesus

• These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Success
  • Small
  • Effort

• As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.

  

  Brooke Shields

• People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.

  

  Charles Best
  • People

• We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Work

• It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • Intelligent

• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  

  John Wooden
  • Failure

• I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to sleep, I can get focused on what happened during the day, pull that into perspective, and that'll make my sleep a little more peaceful.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Perspective

• A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • May
  • Ambition
  • Tomatoes

• For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Desire

• I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Hurt

• It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Life
  • Help
  • Respect

• When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Age

• I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Book
  • Beautiful
  • Dream

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Person
  • Competition

• Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, Alexander Archipenko and things of that sort, Jacques Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Remember
  • Style
  • Influence

• What is it that they say about the winter of our discontent? Those were my years of misbehaving. I just had too much money. I was in Paris, London and New York all the time. I had the best of everything, but I was so unhappy.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Years
  • Winter
  • Discontent

• The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cowardice
  • Giver
  • Alms