Naoko Norwegian Wood Quotes

#1. Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.

Andre Alexis

#2. You're too sweet for your own damn good.

C.L.Stone

#3. In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Laozi

#4. Purpose is the antidote for any malaise that may befall a man.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#5. Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

Haruki Murakami

#6. I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.

Haruki Murakami

#7. There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

George S. Kaufman

#8. I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

Warren G. Bennis

#10. Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

#12. When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

Haruki Murakami

#13. If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

Donovan McNabb

#14. Love people, but don't confuse it with loving their behavior.

Shelley Tougas

#15. Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Melissa Bean

#16. Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

Haruki Murakami

#17. I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.

Haruki Murakami

#18. All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

Ban Ki-moon