Taira No Kiyomori Quotes

#1. I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Liam Neeson

#2. Call them robbers and cutthroats
were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#3. I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#4. You are the head and not the tail. You will lend and not borrow. You are a victor and not a victim.

Joel Osteen

#5. Here
you warriors
why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain?

Eiji Yoshikawa

#6. What motivates people to be late? ... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.

Harvey MacKay

#7. Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

James A. Haught

#8. Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

Benigno Aquino III

#9. Die? Then so be it.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#10. Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.

Francis Landey Patton

#11. I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

John Travolta

#12. It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Paul Conrad

#13. Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

Eiji Yoshikawa

#14. Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Voltaire

#15. Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

Leonard Mlodinow

#16. Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

Behdad Sami

#17. His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.

George Dangerfield

#18. Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#19. Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?

Eiji Yoshikawa

#20. I seem to hear thousands of voices
the voices of the common folk in the marketplace
urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#21. Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

John Dryden

#22. We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Oswald Chambers

#23. If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

George S. Patton