The Heike Story Quotes

#1. Die? Then so be it.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#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. 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

#5. I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

Sophia Bush

#6. Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking ...

Eiji Yoshikawa

#7. Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Maria Montessori

#8. Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.

Bethany Hamilton

#9. It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings.

Bruno Schulz

#10. "You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

Charles Dickens

#11. I'm really sorry I ate your dog.

Nick Harkaway

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

Eiji Yoshikawa

#13. Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If the hermit acts inspired by bad motivation, he'll harm only himself. But if a politician, who can directly influence an entire society, acts with bad motivation, a large number of people will experience the negative consequences.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

Grimes

#15. Broken wings don't mend that way; the way you think broken wings do. Once that wing has taken time to mend; that bird has forgotten how to fly

S.L. Northey

#16. Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#17. Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

David Hilbert

#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. It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

Ben Crenshaw

#20. I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.

Jack Larson

#21. 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

#22. 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