Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

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• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Too Much

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society
  • Crush

• I've tried to go on like I never knew youI'm awake but my world is half asleepI pray for this heart to be unbrokenBut without you all I'm going to be is incomplete.

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • World
  • Heart

• A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Long
  • Encouraging

• Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Women
  • May
  • Technology

• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

  

  James Bay
  • Silly

• Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Character
  • Movie

• My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

  

  Elliott Gould
  • Fear

• New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

  

  Jim Himes
  • Blue

• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  

  John Milton

• The best things happen in the dark.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Dark

• The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Lies

• You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

  

  Cris Judd
  • Why
  • Reality
  • Opportunity

• A lot of my friends say, 'Did you even put on makeup?' and that's exactly what I want.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Friends
  • Makeup

• It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Secret
  • Honest
  • Ironic

• All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Care

• We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Polio-free world

• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • May
  • Universe

• If there is contained in the works of Karl Marx an admonition to his followers to make life hard for themselves and to add to the almost insuperable difficulties attendant on social reform the handicap of offensive personalities, it has escaped my cursory examination. Nevertheless, in all the countries I have visited, and in the United States where I properly belong, the so-called Reds have conspired, perhaps unwittingly, with reactionary traitors and die-hards to place blame on Communists for all of man's ineptitudes and Nature's sorrows.

  

  Elliot Paul
  • Blame
  • Sorrows
  • Personalities

• I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.

  

  Erika Christensen
  • Followers
  • Recipes

• It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Meaningless
  • Followers
  • Ceased