Best Japanese Proverbs
574 Japanese quotes by 418 unique authors
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Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and…
— Richard Lamm
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The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
— Paul Smith
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is…
— Mao Zedong
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date.…
— Harry S. Truman
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Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have…
— Adolf Hitler
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and…
— Tadao Ando
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For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with…
— Tom Clancy
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The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything…
— John McGahern
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When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain…
— James Norwood Pratt
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At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
— Morinosuke Kawaguchi
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In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.
— Morinosuke Kawaguchi
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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the…
— Bruce Feiler
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Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and…
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and…
— Mike Shinoda
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The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them.…
— Pat Morita
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The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on…
— Yoshiko Sakurai
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The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I…
— Douglas MacArthur
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One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in…
— Mary Heilmann
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As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.
— Martin Yan
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I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I…
— Leroy Chiao
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I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very…
— Shilpa Shetty
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418 authors contributed a total of 574 Japanese Quotes, led by these top contributors: