Haruki Murakami Quotes

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

Haruki Murakami

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• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

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• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
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• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

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• Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

  

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• Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Time
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• You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

  

  Marie Osmond
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• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I had a brilliant trip to Mexico with my friend Ellie during my gap year. We thought we were being really cool and going off the beaten track while all our friends went to Thailand and Australia. The first beachside bar we walked into - there were two girls from my sixth form in there.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Friends
  • Friend
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• Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

  

  Jane Siberry
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• We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

  

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• I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
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• I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.

  

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  • People

• I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

  

  William Mapother
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• Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

  

  Alvin O'Konski
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  • Heritage
  • Replaced

• I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right? I mean I can't stay the same for everyone to be consumed as the author of "Gender trouble". I have to continue to live and that means I have to "reposer les questions".

  

  Judith Butler
  • Trouble
  • Author
  • Questions

• For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Long
  • Business
  • American

• For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

  

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Catch
  • Axis