Yagyu Munenori Quotes

You should strike at the moon in the water.

Yagyu Munenori

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• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Leader
  • Visionary
  • Oregon

• Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Heart
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.

  

  Quintilian

• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Dream
  • Journey

• The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
  • Children
  • Truth
  • America

• How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'

  

  Craig Brown
  • Game
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Water

• From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • Time
  • Water
  • Joy

• You should strike at the moon in the water.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Strike