Quotes from James Clavell

It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.

Emperors married, abdicated, or ascended the throne at the whim of the Sh?gunate. But always the reigning Emperor's bloodline was inviolate and unbroken.

semidivine families of the Minowara, Takashima, and Fujimoto were entitled to the rank of Sh?gun.

It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait.

the Sh?gun was all powerful. Until he was overthrown.

I wandered from village to village. A few days here, half a year there, like a butterfly on the summer's breath.

There is no escape now. For anyone.' 'Be patient. The sun has not yet set.' 'I have no confidence in this sun, Mariko-san.' He reached out and touched her face. 'Gomen nasai.

if you succeed or fail, what does it matter? The try will live forever!

priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain

It is sometimes wise to be abstract.

Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze.

God curse me and my lack of wits! Why don't I know what to do easily?

you would think they would be happy fornicators like normal persons. But they are not, they have so many cobwebs in their heads that somehow fornication is not our Most Heavenly Pleasure, but some kind of secret, religious evil. Weird.

Oh yes," Dunstan Barre said sadly. "Casey, in war to survive you have to stretch things a bit sometimes. As to trading, Marlowe, I agree, most times you have to equate the problem to the time and place. I thank God I was never caught. Don't think I'd've survived, know I wouldn't.

Death is preferable?" "I've already written my death poem, Lady: " When I die, don't burn me, don't bury me, just throw my body on a field to fatten some empty-bellied dog. " "That could be arranged. Easily.

It's unseemly to criticize without knowledge.

Money means nothing to a real man.

quarreling avails nothing.

but I'm convinced this earth will never be at peace until all nations have the English parliamentary system, and all the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or by right of stupid votes of a stupid electorate.

There is no need to fear. We are all in God's hands.

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind by itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts however requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline-training- is about.

Adam ruled over vÅ¡emi.Byl Král.Až the day he will be king opustila.Pak came forth and became food for the silnÄ›jÅ¡í.A strongest was always king , not only due to its strength, but thanks to his smarts , luck and strength together. among rats.