Isoroku Quotes

#1. Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

Roksanda Ilincic

#2. You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#3. I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency. It's really ridiculous.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#4. Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#5. A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#6. Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#7. You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.

Bruce Willis

#8. Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#9. Eroticism challenges us to seek a different kind of resolution, to surrender to the unknown and ungraspable, and to breach the confines of the rational world.

Esther Perel

#10. Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#11. Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Isoroku Yamamoto

#12. A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#13. The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ...

Isoroku Yamamoto

#14. The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#15. She told me that every other step was just for me.'
But that's only half of the dance,' I said.
Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

Sherman Alexie

#16. One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

James E. Casey

#17. The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,

Isoroku Yamamoto

#18. I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#19. In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#20. Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#21. the smattering of candles about the dark room gave the illusion of dancing in starlight. The moment made her believe that if she spoke her desires aloud, they might actually come true.

Sarah MacLean