Haruki Murakami Quotes

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

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• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Will

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Long

• I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• 'If you are with God in truth and faith, whatever comes as a blessing or trial will be what God allows. If you are called by God, from beginning to the end, your journey has been documented. Nothing outside your documentary will happen without God’s knowledge.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Truth
  • Faith

• 'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Rude

• 'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Bad

• Two is company; three is fifty bucks.

  

  Joan Rivers

• The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Justice
  • Humility

• When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Knowledge
  • Deep

• I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Different

• Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Famous
  • Easy
  • Start

• Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Study

• The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a very strong view after a period of time, I think, where people fell asleep on politics to a certain extent.

  

  Amma Asante
  • Reality
  • Times
  • Politicized

• We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Beginning
  • Beings