"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

-- Hermann Hesse

#Disappointment Quotes #Passion Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"”
“There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it.”
“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.”

Source : "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)
“You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.”

Source : Jomo Kenyatta (1965). “Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic”, Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1965]
“Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ***** you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with $20 and a pack of Newports who'd try to screw your whole neighborhood.”
“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”
“I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.”

Source : George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

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