Haruki Murakami Quotes

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Haruki Murakami

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Country
  • Health

• Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• All I want to do is change the world.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Want
  • Change

• In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Mom
  • Poor
  • Town

• Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

  

  Hans Frank
  • God
  • Lonely

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Life
  • Food

• Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Money

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Wall
  • Rose

• Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Judge
  • Gold

• If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • World
  • Commitment

• We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

  

  David Means
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Alone

• A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

  

  James Dashner
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Couple

• I don’t need a better thing. I’d settle for less. It’s another thing for me. I just have to wander through this world. Alone.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • World
  • Alone
  • Better

• I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Alone
  • Lonely