Haruki Murakami Quotes
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.
Jane Austen
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
Leo Strauss
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin
I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
Joel Edgerton
I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.
Kenya Barris
I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
Carmen Kass
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
John Charles Polanyi
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
Joe Slovo
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Opening sentence.
John Steinbeck
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
John Hickenlooper
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.
Amilcar Cabral
