Hermann Hesse Quotes

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Hermann Hesse

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Challenges
  • Roadblocks

• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Myself

• I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Why
  • Want

• When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Journey

• We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Home
  • War

• My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I have a great time touring.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Time
  • Great

• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Work
  • Men
  • Action

• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Difference
  • Taxidermist
  • Tax Collector

• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  

  Bobby Scott

• When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • Writing
  • Adventure
  • Luck

• I don't think my parents know what I do.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Parents

• I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Fun
  • Enemy
  • Judge

• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
  • May

• It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Situation

• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Atheist

• If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace. . . . We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

  

  William R. Looney III
  • Country
  • America
  • Military

• If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments if one suffices.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Means
  • Suffices

• Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

  

  William Carey
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Wonder

• Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

  

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
  • Justice
  • Limitation
  • Convenience

• A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Lightning
  • Strikes
  • Suffices