"There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Years Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.”
“I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.”
“Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.”
“I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.”
“We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.”
“You shouldn’t say I can’t until you’ve tried.”
“I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.â€ "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. â€œThat and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.”
“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”

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