Haruki Murakami Quotes

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Haruki Murakami

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Satisfaction
  • Don't Want

• Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Technology

• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  

  Charles James
  • Great
  • Popular
  • Force

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Waiting
  • Force

• Faith is an active creative force.

  

  J. H. Oldham
  • Faith
  • Creative
  • Force

• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Author
  • Danger

• A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.

  

  John Whiting
  • Force
  • Himself
  • Candidate

• Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Force
  • Healing
  • Doctor

• We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Force
  • Coincidence

• When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.

  

  Ivan Reitman
  • Working
  • Force
  • Listen

• After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • World
  • Hair
  • Grew

• When I joined politics, I was arrested in Luanshya... In 1960, I was with great people like Justine Chimba, Mazimba from Ndola and Dingiswayo Banda.

  

  Michael Sata
  • People
  • Great
  • Like

• Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Stimulates

• Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Force
  • Disagree
  • Don't Want