Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Franz Grillparzer

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Frank Zappa

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Jim Carrey

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Jim Carrey

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Jerzy Kosinski

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Jack Kerouac

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Jack Bruce

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

Isaac Pitman

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

Irving Azoff

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

Irving Fisher

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

Irving Fisher

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Luke Evans

Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

By the end of the year, all programs will have been PARTed.

Martin Parr

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

By process of deduction, that's what it has to be,

Peter Capaldi

Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.

Phil Garner

He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along.

He said all week that he was going to prove himself, and he did.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

George Boole

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.