Torii Mototada Quotes

#1. I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...

Ellen Glasgow

#2. The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up!
I'm still alive! So treat me like it!
Look at me!

Kazuya Minekura

#4. All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I'm a Juicy girl.
"I bet you are," he murmured.

Karen Marie Moning

#6. It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Thomas Aquinas

#7. My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.

Stephanie Seymour

#8. I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember!

Charles I Of England

#9. If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest fear or trembling even with the advent of innumerable impending calamities.

Torii Mototada

#10. Your death comes.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

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#12. How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

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#13. But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#14. In Brohier's eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. I will stand off the forces of the entire country here ... and die a resplendent death.

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#16. Some people make a difference, some people make you different.

Saleem Sharma

#17. Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Horace Silver

#18. The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

Thomas Paine

#19. The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

Torii Mototada