Haruki Murakami Quotes

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

Haruki Murakami

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• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Goals

• I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Admired
  • Peasants

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Study
  • Own
  • Corruption

• My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Taught

• I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Think
  • Government
  • Balance

• People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People

• I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Famous

• My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn't grow up with 'Star Wars.' I don't think they know what's going on in the movie at any given time.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

  

  Frank Woolley
  • Great
  • Believe

• I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Why
  • English
  • Fire

• I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

  

  Ji-Hae Park
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Depression

• If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

  

  Penelope Fitzgerald
  • True

• I like doing thrillers.

  

  Frank Peretti

• Pearls mean tears.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Tears

• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Challenge
  • Survival

• I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

  

  Elise Valmorbida
  • Reading
  • Write
  • Connect

• All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • Reading
  • Service
  • Public

• The assumption of perfectly rational, maximizing behavior won out until recently in the art of modeling, not because it often reflects reality, but because it was useful.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Assumption

• A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Men
  • Bad

• Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Assumption
  • Predicted
  • Human activities