Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.
The talk had turned to business, and in the few short hours she had learned more about Hong Kong techniques than through all the reading she had done. More and more it was clear that unless you were on the inside, real power and real riches would escape you.
It is sometimes wise to be abstract.
Remember that fortune and misfortune should be left to heaven and natural law. They are not to be bough by prayer or any cunning device to be thought of by any man or self-styled saint. p848.
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.
Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.
Toranaga eased his kimono and loincloth aside, as did Yabu. Together they urinated and mixed their urine and watched it dew the garden below.
For a woman, old age is never pretty.
It is not wise to notice another man’s woman.
You must be patient before you criticize.
It’s unseemly to criticize without knowledge.
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose.
By historic custom only the descendants of the sprawling, ancient, semi-divine families of the Minowara, Takashima, and Fujimoto were entitled to the rank of Shogun.
I’ve set myself against the sea all my life and I’ve always won. I always will.
It’s a hard life for a woman, Felicity,” he had said before. And she had said, “Any life is hard for a woman.
But if I am to go, I am to go, and there’s the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem.
So many firsts. Yes. And so many deaths to win them.
It’s the brandy, Pilot, that an’ fornication an’ the saintly life I’ve led.
Where do the interests of the Christians lie?” “On the side of peace. Christianity is a religion, Sire, not a political ideology.
No honor. No cojones. Except to burn innocents in the name of God.