Haruki Murakami Quotes

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Haruki Murakami

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• I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• It's not about having enough time, it's about making enough time.

  

  Rachael Bermingham
  • Time

• It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Time
  • Words
  • Action

• I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Contribution
  • European Union

• February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Rain
  • Frozen
  • February

• But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time
  • Books
  • Images

• Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.

  

  William Watson
  • Honor
  • Thee

• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  

  John Milton

• - What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Religion
  • Property
  • Socialist

• If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

  

  William Lilly
  • People
  • House
  • Judgment

• Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

  

  Gen Urobuchi
  • Justice
  • Kindness
  • Necessarily

• Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Care
  • Grim
  • Moroseness

• What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Seek
  • Compensation