💬 Quotes

"La politique est une pierre au cou d'un ronds-de-cuir, mais pour les âmes fortes, c'est le drame de la passion."

"Il me semble que je vois clair dans mon cœur, et je n'y trouve que de l'amour pour vous."

"Vivre, c'est agir; c'est goûter à la fois l'action et le bonheur, ou du moins l'illusion du bonheur."

"Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"You look up when you long for elevation. And I look down because I am elevated."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."

"The fog's gone, an' the hills are out, but I've got the rheumatiz."

"There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it."

"What is the use of worrying? It never helps anything, and it always makes things worse."

"I'm so glad I'm not like you! ... Oh, of course I don't mean that. I mean I'm glad I'm me, 'cause if I wasn't, I wouldn't have you."

"Make folks happy—that is what I say."

"An amateur yachtsman? Yes; but a yachtsman who knows every inch of the North Sea, and who has studied the Frisian coast as a soldier studies a fortress."

"The riddle of the sands—what does it mean? A labyrinth of shifting shoals, a desert of mud and water where maps are useless and every tide remakes the world."

"We are playing for high stakes, Carruthers. Not for sport, or adventure, but for the safety of England, though few at home have the imagination to see it."

"To the landsman, the sea is a highway; to the sailor who knows these waters, it is a maze of ambushes and an impregnable defense."

"Routine, cold, and wet; these are the true enemies of the pioneer, far more than any human adversary."