Wataya 2 Quotes & Sayings

... I'd never have to wonder what he was thinking or feeling about me. He would be direct and honest.

In truth, I admired this about him. I wasn't nearly as fearless. By comparison, and especially with him, I was a feelings and thoughts hoarder. — Penny Reid

If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they'd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That'd lead 'em right! That's all I'm sayin'. — J.K. Rowling

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose. — Oscar Wilde

The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all. — Laozi

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus

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

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately. — Dustin Hoffman

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself. — David Lloyd-Jones

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. — Otto Hermann Kahn

People throw stones at you and u turned them into milestones — Sachin Tendulkar

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about. I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying. Beginning was awful. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal. — Diane Ackerman

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government. — Barbara W. Tuchman

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness. — Leonard Ravenhill