Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: June 11, 1659 - November 30, 1719

Topics

DogLiveLoyaltyFoodBestBlind

I don't think it's a secret that I'm not a fan of all the attention and the media, stuff like that, but I understand it's part of it, and I have to do it.

Andrew Benintendi

ThinkMediaAttentionUnderstandFan

Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is leadership.

Robert Jeffress

LeadershipQualityImportantBecause

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Andy Grove

ChangeInternetEverythingDemand

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

Tony Judt

LiveManPeopleHurtBrooklynKind

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

Russell Brand

PeopleBrainReputationThinkWorry

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

PowerFunctionDifferentPunish

Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

StrategyYouMoreMilitaryNeed

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

Lizz Wright

FamilyWomenMenMeTeachersLittle

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.

Loretta Swit

PeopleViewAnimalsNeverEatTell

I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.'

Asma Jahangir

DangerousDictatorWhoAnyoneCalls

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

Penn Jillette

SportsTalkingAlwaysFirst-Person

I'm the kind of player who is never satisfied on the pitch. If I score twice, I'm already thinking about getting a third one.

Paulo Dybala

ThinkingKindNeverSatisfiedTwice

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