Haruki Murakami Quotes

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

Haruki Murakami

• Hope
• Desire
• Protect
• Hearts
• Flame

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• I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • God
  • Fall

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • Parents
  • Community

• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Today
  • Doubt

• As the man, so his God

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • God

• Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

  

  Jamie Dornan

• Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Great
  • Science
  • Opportunity

• I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Father

• Usually on 'Yo Gabba Gabba,' we eat healthy and organic. We don't play.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall

• We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it's an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that's a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I'll make my way up to that.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Honor

• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  

  Max Weber
  • Knowledge
  • Unity

• Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

  

  Peter Finch
  • People
  • Good
  • Judge

• I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Plant

• One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Power
  • Focus

• She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Sex

• The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Japanese

• We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS

• The Friday Night Knitting Club

  

  Kate Jacobs
  • Friday
  • Knitting

• I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Dad

• By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Time
  • History
  • Hope

• Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Protect