Haruki Murakami Quotes

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

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• There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Force

• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Political
  • Control

• The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

  

  O. Henry
  • Road
  • Eye
  • Fortune

• For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Food

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Influence

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Together
  • Group

• People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Day

• I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Think
  • Nice

• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Day

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Goal
  • Find
  • Strike

• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • True
  • Rest
  • See

• We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.

  

  Alan M. Taylor
  • History
  • Credit
  • Systems

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Win
  • Highway
  • Lane