Shingen Takeda Quotes

#1. I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Jack Klugman

#2. In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Corita Kent

#3. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

#4. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Robin Hobb

#5. I think every role that I go up for is daunting.

Tom Cullen

#6. Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should simply not be without it.

Takeda Shingen

#7. Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Date Masamune

#8. Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

Takeda Shingen

#9. The narrower their lives, the wider their hips.

Toni Morrison

#10. The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

Austin O'Malley

#11. Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.

Iris Apfel

#12. Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I never just decided to become a writer. I was born to be a writer. I knew it from childhood.

Sai Marie Johnson

#13. Those who are patient, plan. And beware the man with a plan.

Penelope Douglas

#14. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it ...

Marcel Proust

#15. I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

George H. W. Bush

#16. I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

Mickey Rooney

#17. A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Takeda Shingen

#18. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Joe Klein

#19. Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

Takeda Shingen

#20. Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

Takeda Shingen