#wit

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#epitaph #wit

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#circumstances #lives #our #our lives #rule

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#cameroon #i #i always #left #lived

People judged my work without to have listened to it. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#listened #people #without #work

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#fully #grasp #imagery #necessarily #resonant

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#magic #policy #speech #speeches #without

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

What is without periods of rest will not endure. ↗

— Ovid

#periods #rest #will #without

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bin #got #happened #laden #spies