Nobushige Takeda Quotes

#1. When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

Takeda Nobushige

#2. One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Takeda Nobushige

#3. In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

Takeda Nobushige

#4. Freedom is not doing what you like, but liking what you do.

R.H. Blyth

#5. One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

Takeda Nobushige

#6. Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.

Takeda Nobushige

#7. He anxiously touched his hair. I think my hair gel's frozen.

Richelle Mead

#8. When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

Ji-Hae Park

#9. The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

Takeda Nobushige

#10. Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

Michael Keaton

#11. It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Julian Baggini

#12. I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

Chuck Feeney

#13. I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.

Jonathan Ames

#14. Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Na'ama Yehuda

#16. Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.

A.P. Herbert

#17. Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.

John Wimber

#18. One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

Takeda Nobushige

#19. One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

Takeda Nobushige