Haruki Murakami Quotes

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

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• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Single

• I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Child

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

  

  Alexander Meiklejohn
  • World
  • Done
  • Task

• I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Free
  • Decision
  • Self

• Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Cool
  • Angry
  • Passionate

• There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.

  

  Plato
  • Humanity
  • States
  • Philosophers

• Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • World
  • Rhythm
  • Beats

• If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Results
  • Mystery

• Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Children
  • Intelligent
  • Blonde

• Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

  

  Emmett Tyrrell
  • Americans
  • Painful
  • Delusions

• Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wind
  • Collaboration
  • Clock

• This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Secrets
  • Built
  • Clock