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

• Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Conception

• It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wrong
  • Terrible
  • Judges

• It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • World
  • War
  • Humanity

• 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