Kiyomori Taira Quotes & Sayings

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

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! — Eiji Yoshikawa

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff. — Paul McCartney

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business. — Jack Kevorkian

I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Ah, you pitiful, pitiful creatures! Beautiful family! Nobler far than stupid men ... " he cried softly to himself. What was he doing here with his arrow? Cornering these creatures? Armor
an armor to brag about! Save his dignity before that armor-maker because of a promise? Foolish ... foolish! If the old man jeered at him, why should it matter anymore; a common suit of armor would do as well! Armor did not make a man, nor did it signify valor.
"Dumb creatures that you are, how magnificent! Sorrow, love
parental love incarnate! Were I that fox
what if Tokiko and Shigemori were trapped like this? Even the beast can rise above itself
could I as much? — Eiji Yoshikawa

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

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

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.. — Patricia Cornwell

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him. — Michael Bond

Die? Then so be it. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. — Natalie Babbitt

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

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read! — Lewis Carroll

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. — Thomas Jefferson

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