Japanese Sword Quotes

#1. I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

Kelly Hu

#2. My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

Samaire Armstrong

#3. New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

Susan Sarandon

#4. Welcome to thee,
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way.

Okakura Kakuzo

#5. You know that's permanent right?"
... "You know you're permanent, right?

S.C. Stephens

#6. When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.

Francois Mauriac

#8. I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

Esmeralda Santiago

#9. Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

Ernie J Zelinski

#10. Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

David Letterman

#11. Ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Ayn Rand

#12. [The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

#13. All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Mark Haddon

#14. No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

J.R. Ward

#15. I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

Paula Pell

#16. What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

Fulton J. Sheen

#17. There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

F.H. Bradley

#18. In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

H.E. Davey

#19. There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.

Ann Nocenti

#20. Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

Buzz Aldrin