Haruki Murakami Quotes

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

Haruki Murakami

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• I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Problem
  • Eat
  • Too Much

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • College
  • Myself
  • Medical

• Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Fun
  • Rest
  • Guitar

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Child
  • Find

• You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Way
  • Change

• I was very pleased with both starting groups there, ... It's still preseason, but we needed a good lift.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Team
  • Improvement

• I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Resources
  • Education budgets

• I choose to live, not just exist.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Exist

• I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

  

  Alan Brennert
  • Pain
  • Choose
  • Divine

• We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Children
  • Adventure
  • Choose

• It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Way
  • Built
  • Forces

• We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Choose
  • Arbitrary
  • Breeze