Haruki Murakami Quotes

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Haruki Murakami

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Dumb
  • Unpredictable

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Dog
  • Cat

• Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Theatre
  • Agree
  • Absurd

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Country

• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Book

• You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Life

• Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Family
  • Dad

• If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz

• My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

  

  Andy Kindler

• I'm going to play again. I will think and I will hope so. If I don't, I am fine with it.

  

  Chad Johnson
  • Hope

• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Long
  • Confidence
  • Foundation

• There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There's this totally misconceived notion that it's hard to do, and it's not.

  

  Christopher McDougall
  • People
  • War
  • Running

• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

  

  Kim Tae-hyung BTS
  • Hurt
  • Forget
  • Taught

• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • Efforts
  • Despite