Continental Philosophy Quotes

#1. I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

Omar N. Bradley

#3. Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Above all, let's hope we never take ourselves too seriously.

Vercors

#5. I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness.

Nalini Singh

#6. I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers ... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Terry Pratchett

#7. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.

Julie Johnson

#8. Just call me Sassenach.

J.L. Berg

#9. But do I really want my vagina to heal over through lack of use either?

Nick Alexander

#10. I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Lauren Bacall