Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
Quotes to Explore
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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Failure is a part of success.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
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They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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The way I talk is bizarre.
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One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
