Noboru Wataya Quotes & Sayings

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11. — David Hunt

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh. — Julie Kenner

Noboru Wataya is a person who belongs to a world that is the exact opposite of yours... In a world where you are losing everything, Mr.Okada, Noboru Wataya is gaining everything. In a world where you are rejected, he is accepted. And the opposite is just as true. Which is why he hates you so intensely. — Haruki Murakami

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya. — Haruki Murakami

I've seen the power of Life Coaching firsthand and I know how beneficial it can be. — Leeza Gibbons

Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater. — Jack Kornfield

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. — Barack Obama

Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring? — Haruki Murakami

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth. — Ben Bradlee