Toranaga Quotes

#1. Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.

James Clavell

#2. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#3. We only have to Believe in our Own Dream.

Jan Jansen

#4. Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Alistair Cooke

#5. There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

Michelle Rodriguez

#6. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,

Voltaire

#7. Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.

Philip A.K. Ovland

#8. Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Jim Butcher

#9. What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!

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