Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Real
  • Improvement

• When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Movie

• I want to start really developing more on the film side.

  

  Kenya Barris

• It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

  

  James Mackintosh

• I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

  

  John Rocco
  • Painting
  • River

• Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Enough
  • Shoes
  • Hard

• God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I walked by myself through the city and urged angry young people to go home. I asked them to help the people who had been burned out.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• Football is more important to me than money right now.

  

  Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
  • Important
  • Money
  • Football

• It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Energy

• [Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Wish

• Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Risk

• The Cisco Unified Communications system is the first true second-generation Internet Protocol (IP) Communications system providing not just telephone services, but rather a rich communications environment that seamlessly integrates voice, video and data collaboration in one system. It is also the first new Cisco system to fully support Cisco SONA, announced in December 2005. Cisco SONA extends the power of the network to optimize applications, processes and resources to deliver greater business benefits to enterprises. By building on Cisco SONA, Cisco Unified Communications leverages network intelligence to greatly simplify the day-to-day challenges of collaboration with colleagues.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Written

• If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Death
  • Peace
  • Painful

• By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes

  

  Charles Reznikoff
  • Old
  • Days
  • Dedication

• Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • War
  • Scars

• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Perfect

• The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed.

  

  Charles Curtis
  • Together
  • Way
  • Support

• At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Endure
  • Weaknesses
  • Propel