Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Life
  • You
  • Road

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Technology
  • Communication
  • Text

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Parents
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• People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Important
  • Focus

• I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Rock

• I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sick

• 'Clearer and nearer still,' cried the Rat joyously. 'Now you must surely hear it! Ah - at last - I see you do!' Breathless and transfixed the Mole stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. He saw the tears on his comrade's cheeks, and bowed his head and understood.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
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  • Tears

• Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Causes
  • Scientist
  • Aids

• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Real
  • Book

• Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Wanting
  • Comport