Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

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• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Strong
  • Race
  • Battle

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Faith
  • Far
  • Candidates

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Me
  • Control
  • Marriage

• I'll just have to weigh it up and if I'm still playing well, training hard and enjoying my footy, then who knows.

  

  Andrew Johns
  • Training
  • Playing
  • Enjoying

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • World
  • Animal
  • Monster

• No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Man
  • Jesus
  • Failure

• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Heaven
  • Animal