Shoin Yoshida Quotes

#1. As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

Yoshida Shoin

#2. If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

Alcee Hastings

#3. Only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It's something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.

C.J. Mahaney

#4. Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.

Jim Moore

#6. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

Yoshida Shoin

#7. To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

Yoshida Shoin

#8. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Francine Prose

#9. I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces

C.S. Lewis

#10. Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

Byron Nelson

#11. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

Marie Howe

#12. I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Sergei Bubka

#13. Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.

Yoshida Shoin

#14. One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

Yoshida Shoin

#15. It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Yoshida Shoin

#16. I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

Dawn Olivieri

#17. Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy.

Mary J. Williams

#18. The power of love make everything Possible

Sugiarti Manik

#19. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

Yoshida Shoin