Haruki Murakami Sputnik Quotes

#1. And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#2. So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera. - Author: Sol Luckman

#3. Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#4. Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home. - Author: Sara Paretsky

#5. Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#6. How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well. - Author: Phyllis Chesler

#7. What I've written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the air
like a boomerang. It slices through the dark, lays the little soul of
some poor kangaroo out cold, and finally comes back to me.
But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.
Boomerang, boomerang. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#8. Do you know what 'Sputnik' means in Russian? 'Travelling companion'. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It's just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#9. Jim flinched when their hands met. "Your hands are like ice."
She snatched her hands back and shoved them into her pockets. "You know what they say - cold hands, warm heart. - Author: Nicki Edwards

#10. Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#11. Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly. - Author: Simone De Beauvoir

#12. To "have the mind of Christ" means to look at life from the Savior's point of view, having His values and desires in mind. It means to think God's thoughts and not think as the world thinks. - Author: Warren W. Wiersbe

#13. You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle. - Author: Bill Clinton

#14. Sometimes I feel so- I don't know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going'
Like a little lost Sputnik?'
I guess so. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#15. A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality. - Author: Lynn Coady

#16. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#17. The intimacy bridge? Girl, he sounds like a total loser. Dump him. Now. Before he brings up the intimacy bridge again. - Author: Jill Shalvis

#18. The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. - Author: Russell Banks

#19. I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky - Author: Haruki Murakami

#20. I wasn't going to be the victim. I was going to be a survivor. And I would never let anyone get in the way of my happiness ever again. - Author: M. Clarke

#21. I was attracted to her from the first time we talked, and soon there was no turning back. For a long time she was the only thing I could think about. I tried to tell her how I felt, but somehow the feelings and the right words couldn't connect. Maybe it was for the best. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#22. My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help. - Author: Ellen G. White