Hermann Hesse Quotes

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Free
  • Interesting

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Country
  • Year

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• I got the part in Into the Forest, I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Love
  • Dance
  • Changed

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

  

  Katie Cassidy
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• One of the biggest struggles in starting out on my own was developing a celebrity client base.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Celebrity

• Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Pride

• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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