Haruki Murakami Quotes

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami

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• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Simple

• The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Growing

• We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Long
  • Done
  • Political

• I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

  

  Lila Acheson Wallace

• It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Movie

• I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

  

  Jane Green
  • Important
  • Friendship

• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  

  David Remnick

• Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Life
  • Children

• They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

  

  John Hume
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Irish

• I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Work

• It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

  

  John Avlon
  • Important
  • Remember

• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that’s not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

  

  David Pogue
  • Book
  • Reading

• Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Men
  • Sea

• Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pain

• But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Moments

• If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Stories

• I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pain
  • Meaning
  • Bear