Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.

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• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Sexy
  • Fragrance
  • Centre

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Familiar

• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Pleasure

• The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • American
  • Community

• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Information
  • Assessment
  • Pandemic

• I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Going

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • God
  • Culture

• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Die
  • Never
  • Berlin

• Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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