Munenori Quotes

#1. The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

Isak Dinesen

#2. Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.

Yagyu Munenori

#3. The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Swami Vivekananda

#4. When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

Yagyu Munenori

#5. Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides ... so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. You should strike at the moon in the water.

Yagyu Munenori

#7. I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

Jean Cocteau

#8. When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

Marianne Williamson

#9. Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

Yagyu Munenori

#10. It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates through the years will receive the attention it deserves and that its implications will be seriously considered.

Arvid Carlsson

#11. But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Carl Barat

#12. It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

Yagyu Munenori

#13. His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

William Shakespeare

#14. Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

Marge Piercy

#15. See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

Yagyu Munenori

#16. Sacredness is spirituality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.

Yagyu Munenori