Haruki Murakami Quotes

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Haruki Murakami

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• Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Value
  • Rich
  • Surprised

• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Twilight

• I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Live
  • Leader
  • Shows

• All films are born free and equal.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Free
  • Film
  • Born

• And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Remember
  • Found
  • Causes

• There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • May
  • Doubt

• That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Found
  • Nation
  • Consensus

• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Weakness
  • Destroy

• She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Destroy
  • Destruction
  • Satisfy

• It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

  

  Bernhard Haring
  • Trust
  • Destroy
  • Damage

• Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.

  

  Silius Italicus
  • Heaven
  • Pleasure
  • Enemies

• It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Destroy
  • Build Up