Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Child
  • Industry
  • Advertising

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

  

  Franz Schubert

• Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Life
  • Elton John
  • Freddie Mercury

• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Justice
  • Pursuit
  • Reconciliation

• I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Eyes
  • Revelations
  • Leisure

• The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • War
  • Law
  • Failure

• You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • War
  • Cause
  • Justifies