Shoguns Quotes

• There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Hate, War, Grief

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• How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Past, Fleeting

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.210, Dell

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• Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

  James Clavell

  Joy, Indescribable, Edges

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.979, Dell

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• Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Strong, Hate

  JAMES CLAVELL (1975). “SHOGUN”

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• I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Ninja, Young

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

  James Clavell

  Christian, Loyalty, Mean

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.352, Dell

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• I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Pythagorean Theorem

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

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• There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

  James Clavell

  Dignity, Sufferers

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.92, Dell

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• It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

  James Clavell

  Real, Heart, Men

  James Clavell (2013). “Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

  James Clavell

  Real, Important, Titles

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.207, Dell

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• First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

  James Clavell

  Atheist, Atheism, Firsts

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.507, Dell

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• The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Stories, Scripts, Scene

  "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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• As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Lying, Hero, Roots

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.

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• I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.

  Hijikata Toshizo

  Clouds, Breathing, Protect

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• My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

  Christopher Bollen

  Mother, Dad, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Two

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