Haruki Murakami Quotes

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

Haruki Murakami

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• Ocean
• Sadness
• Weather
• Imagined

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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • American
  • Giving
  • Religious

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Home
  • Three

• Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Time
  • School
  • Band

• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Travel

• My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Made
  • Loved

• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Tired

• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Nature
  • Desire

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Car

• It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Expected

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Power

• Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Life
  • Real
  • Interesting

• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Ocean
  • Sadness