Ernst Junger Quotes

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

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• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kitchen

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Always

• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Husband
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Good
  • Think
  • Limited

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist

• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Friend

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Live

• I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Home
  • Song
  • Listening

• I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Knows
  • Theory
  • Relativity

• Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

  

  Ernst Junger
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