Hermann Hesse Magister Ludi Quotes & Sayings

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost. — Henry Paulson

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' — Debra Messing

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all. — Benjamin Moser

Van sealed the letter, found his Thunderbolt pistol in the place he had visualized, introduced one cartridge into the magazine, and translated it into its chamber. Then, standing before a closet mirror, he put the automatic to his head, at the point of the pterion, and pressed the comfortably concaved trigger. Nothing happened - or perhaps everything happened, and his destiny simply forked at that instant, as it probably does sometimes at night, especially in a strange bed, at stages of great happiness or great desolation, when we happen to die in our sleep, but continue our normal existence, with no perceptible break in the fakes serialization, on the following, neatly prepared morning, with a spurious past discreetly but firmly attached behind. — Vladimir Nabokov

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully. — John Flanagan

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. — Richard Foreman

For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone ... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture. — Kay Coles James

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell