Haruki Murakami Quotes
Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
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My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, 'Those things that hurt instruct!' I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
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Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
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As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.
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Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out
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I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
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The Affordable Care Act has hurt more people that it's helped.
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If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.
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I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.
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#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
