Haruki Murakami Quotes

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Haruki Murakami

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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• I knew I was going to be somebody.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Going
  • Knew
  • Somebody

• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Lies
  • Agreed

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Peace
  • Look

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • History
  • Period
  • Stupid

• I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Country
  • Together
  • History

• A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • History
  • Study

• The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Writing
  • History

• Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • History

• I'm interested in history.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • History

• In Romanticism, unlike the Renaissance, Amazons retain their power. Rousseau wants it both ways. Idolizing women is natural and right, a cosmic law. On the other hand, male recessiveness is blamed on female coercion. Either way, sadomasochistic dominance and submission are inherent in Rousseausism from the start.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Power
  • Law

• We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

  

  Estelle
  • Black
  • Community
  • Issues

• This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • History
  • Knew
  • Proposition