James Clavell Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Clavell
James Clavell Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from James Clavell on Wise Famous Quotes.
If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come.
We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.
Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?
And damned nomads in Mesopotamia have again cut the telegraph - another expeditionary force is being organized to deal with them once and for all!
I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable
all at the same time?
all at the same time?
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.
I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!
So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm
The point is we both know life and understand death - and both believe treatment in hell and everywhere else depends on money.