Existentialist Writers Quotes

#1. What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Peter Schuyler

#2. You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

Jack Black

#3. I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.

Trinny Woodall

#4. That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

Lynn Austin

#5. Psychology, trading tactics, and money management are the three pillars of success, but there is the fourth factor that ties them together. That factor - which integrates all others - is record-keeping.

Anonymous

#6. To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Washington Irving

#7. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

John Darnielle

#8. Many things in life are difficult," said Reven, choosing his words carefully. "But to those who persevere, all things are possible.

Sage Blackwood

#9. Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

N. T. Wright