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Quotes About Acceptance

?n vacibi o idi ki, dÉ™yÉ™rli bir ??yam?z? itirÉ™ndÉ™ vÉ™ axtar?b-axtar?b tapa bilmÉ™yÉ™ndÉ™ qÉ™lbimiz tamamilÉ™ q?r?lm?rd?. Böyüyüb ölkÉ™dÉ™ sÉ™rbÉ™st sÉ™yahÉ™t edÉ™ bilÉ™ndÉ™ Norfolka getmÉ™k imkan?m?z?n olaca?? fikri ilÉ™ özümüzÉ™ tÉ™sÉ™lli verÉ™ bilirdik.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We all know it. We're modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. That's what we come from. We all know it, so why don't we say it?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realize that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you--of how you were brought into this world and why--and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Bütün bunlara kar?? ba????kl?k kazand???m? söylemiyorum, ama böyle yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrendim.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
In any case, ogres were not so bad provided one did not provoke them. One had to accept that every so often, perhaps following some obscure dispute in their ranks, a creature would come blundering into a village in a terrible rage, and despite shouts and brandishings of weapons, rampage about injuring anyone slow to move out of its path. Or that every so often, an ogre might carry off a child into the mist. The people of the day had to be philosophical about such outrages.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we had wished?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What was I like in those days, Father? Was I like a mad person?' 'You were very shocked, which was only to be expected. We were all shocked, those of us who were left.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You don't see how it is for some parents. Not only must they lose their children, they must lose them to things they don't understand.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I suppose they have a point though,' he said. 'I don't belong here. This is a meeting for lifted kids.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When I look back to this period, and remember it was less than twenty years from the end of a world war in which the Japanese had been their bitter enemies, I'm amazed by the openness and instinctive generosity with which our family was accepted by this ordinary English community.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And I could see the weariness in the boy AF's walk, and wondered what it might be like to have found a home and yet to know that your child didn't want you. Until I saw this pair it hadn't occurred to me that an AF could be with a child who despised him and wanted him gone, and that they could nevertheless carry on together
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Potser algun dia tots aquests conflictes s'acabaran, i no serà pas gràcies a cap gran estadista o a cap església o a cap institució com aquesta. Serà perquè la gent haurà canviat. Seran com tu, Puffin: una barreja. ¿Per què no ho hem de voler ser, mestissos? És una cosa saludable.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
After all, what can we gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We must each of us ... be grateful for what we do have. ... You really musn't let any more foolish ideas come between yourself and the happiness you deserve.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Pero Dios sabrá valorar el lento discurrir del amor que una pareja de anciones siente el uno por el otro, y comprender que las negras sombras forman parte de su totalidad
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Sufficiently generous and liberal to be open to all students of high caliber, even some who haven't benefited from genetic editing.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro