Miura Quotes & Sayings

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function ... They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard ... you've never seen their shape, but you feel ... you suspect ... they correspond to ... an empty space inside you ... or in the universe ... — Marguerite Duras

It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are. — Yuichiro Miura

Hate is a place where a man who can't stand sadness goes. — Kentaro Miura

Whether it succeeded or not was of secondary importance; first, I had to do it. Then I would experience the fullness of life as I went along. That was my only possible way of living. — Tetsuo Miura

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are. — Yuichiro Miura

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them. — Yuichiro Miura

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. — Yuichiro Miura

Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather, the fact that there were church people as weak and foolish as I was myself gave me a deep sense of reassurance. Arrogantly I thought, 'If God accepts that sort of person, isn't it possible thatHe will even accept me?' And I began to read the Bible more attentively. — Ayako Miura

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions. — Jay Weatherill

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon! — Elizabeth Warren

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream, — Yuichiro Miura

That thing was too big to be called a sword.
Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron. — Kentaro Miura

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. — P.L. Travers

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. — Francis Bacon

Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water. — Tetsuo Miura

Until It's Gone

"Some people don't know what they have until it's gone."

"But what about the ones who do know? The ones who never took a damn thing for granted? Who tried their hardest to hold on, yet could only look on helplessly while they lost the thing they loved the most."

"Isn't it so much worse for them? — Lang Leav

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die ... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death. — Yuichiro Miura

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. — Yuichiro Miura

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud. — Joan Rivers

Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded. — Tetsuo Miura

The place I belong...Maybe it did exist. I was too stupid and stubborn to notice it, but what I really wished for back then was here. Why do I always see these things after they're done and gone? — Kentaro Miura

In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will. Man takes up the sword in order to shield the small wound in his heart sustained in a far-off time beyond remembrance. Man wields the sword so that he may die smiling in some far-off time beyond perception. — Kentaro Miura

Even if we painstakingly piece together something lost, it doesn't mean things will ever go back to how they were Berserk — Kentaro Miura

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you ... you won't be able to walk. — Kentaro Miura

I visited Eduardo Miura's ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem. — Ferruccio Lamborghini

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. — Yuichiro Miura

When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible. — Yuichiro Miura

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there. — Grant Bowler

No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue. — Shion Miura

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing. — Yuichiro Miura

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around — Kentaro Miura

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters. — Yuichiro Miura

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution. — Ezra Taft Benson