Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

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• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Want
  • You
  • Matter

• And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Night
  • Me
  • Pleasure

• America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • America
  • Leader

• When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Nature
  • You
  • Child

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Failure
  • Promise

• One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Important
  • Family
  • Power

• If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Public

• Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Hurt
  • Phones
  • EBay

• To be premature is to be perfect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Perfect
  • Premature

• Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Parent

• Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

  

  Homer
  • Olympic Games
  • Conquerors
  • Proclaims

• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Country
  • Mean

• Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • God
  • Forget
  • Sorrow

• It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Terrible
  • Occupied
  • Mediorce