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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books


Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of e...
RICK SAY They looked at the videotape because of Kali, but I guess they liked the other boys. Same thing happ...
WENDELL SAY The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you can not do.
WALTER BAGEHOT Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
FREDRIK BACKMAN My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT @chrstnewever: All men say this one word "Women", mainly to compare a woman with other women. All wo...
CHRISTINE S. WEVER Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday l...
CARLA H. KRUEGER In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say,' said Ove
FREDRIK BACKMAN Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
C.S. LEWIS I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would b...
JOSE RIZAL Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is...
BEVERLY CLEARY I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...
JANE AUSTEN I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what i...
KARL KRAUS We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
LEWIS CASSEN Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what ...
C. S. LEWIS What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE I haven't got time to read books.'

'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, "I love you." The real trick is to get them t...
ILKA CHASE Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS All you can say is, my whole life is in this home.
CHRISTINE TODD I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creat...
ZOE KAZAN If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim...
PETER SIS He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other ...
JOHN AUBREY I'm not sure what to say, ... other than, 'Wow.'
DON COOPER The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what ot...
PAUL MERTON Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not sa...
WILLIAM W. WATT All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E.B. WHITE There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of spe...
MARTIN BUBER Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, ...
DENNIS PRAGER There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposit...
JOHN GALSWORTHY The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...
RAY BRADBURY Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been cal...
DUANE CHAPMAN As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE What can I say? I have no words to say because I lost my whole brother's family, two kids and my bro...
ALBERT TOUTOUNZIAN My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to eac...
DAVID BALDACCI His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in ...
LAURA HILLENBRAND My responsibility is not to say 'do exactly what I've done.' It's just to say this is what I did.
BROOKE SHIELDS When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my...
ORHAN PAMUK Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when me...
PETER S. BEAGLE I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally differ...
ASAP ROCKY Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are ...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT If the technology does what we say it can do, they'll be buying them for the whole system.
BRUCE THOMAS When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore every...
RANDY PAUSCH How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do ev...
JENNIFER TILLY I believe in deeds, not words.
TAMORA PIERCE There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of...
MARTIN BUBER As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
JOHN SELDEN In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to s...
LORD BYRON Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.
UNKNOWN If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
GUSTAV MAHLER It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, t...
TERRY PRATCHETT You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
CORNELIA FUNKE Some characters touch your heart, then tear it apart.
DASHA LEVITSKY Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it ...
WILKIE COLLINS I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...
BLAISE PASCAL In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
ANNA QUINDLEN In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
JEFFREY GITOMER I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER STAGE TO SAY WHAT I WANT TO SAY, THE WORLD ITSELF IS MY STAGE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in ...
BOURKE COCKRAN They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their o...
JOVIUS Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I...
DAVID A. SIEGEL Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Say to yourself, I will call the office at six every other day, and that is when you do it, so it is...
LIZ TUCKER I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
ALEX CHIU I strongly believe that other maps exist, that other books exist but people may not see their import...
LIU GANG Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the hu...
WILLIAM THAYER SHEDD I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men.
BRITT EKLAND I'm just saying you should pick a man who knows that he's not worthy of you and who will dedicate hi...
SUSAN EE What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It...
OSCAR WILDE let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
SYLVIA PLATH I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
H.L. MENCKEN I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most...
YANN MARTEL History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These ar...
R. SCOTT BAKKER Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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