Uesugi Quotes & Sayings

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows — Uesugi Kenshin

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation. — Philip Hammond

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. — Norman MacCaig

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role. — Shahin Najafi

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell. — Nadege Richards

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"It is now." What? Had it not been gentlemanly to tear up her motor? — Cynthia Eden

Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever. — Uesugi Kenshin

The Attitude of Gratitude can raise your Altitude. Being Thankful is a magical way to reach the Top. - RVM. — R.v.m.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You can eclipse the sun, but the truth will always shine through. — Jaree Francis

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. — Uesugi Kenshin

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity. — Banana Yoshimoto

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live. — Uesugi Kenshin

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt. — Uesugi Kenshin

actually considered it. But the sound of more footsteps thundering — Melody Anne