Haruki Murakami Quotes

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Haruki Murakami

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• Mistakes
• Absorb
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• I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Guitar
  • Down
  • Three

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Like
  • Congress
  • Big

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People
  • Important
  • Everyone

• Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Bike

• I put myself through college playing pool.

  

  Walter Alston
  • College
  • Myself
  • Pool

• I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Process

• I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-

  

  Larry Niven
  • Mind

• …the cold deflation of crapula…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold

• 467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tree
  • Garden

• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Trying

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

  

  John Acton
  • People
  • Power
  • Hand

• I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

  

  Jeremy Heimans
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Power
  • Mistakes
  • Absorb