FastSaying

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.


Isoroku Yamamoto

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild ...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance f...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I di...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so tha...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to ...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawai...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into intercep...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequen...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO If there's a hiccup, he's back in like a burglar.
PITA SHARPLES If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congre...
G. GORDON LIDDY She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers...
JENNIFER E. SMITH He who hesitates is lost
AMERICAN PROVERB Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Love is the original drug. Even when you get your heart broken in countless little pieces, you still...
KēVENS He who hesitates is a damned fool.
MAE WEST He who hesitates is a damned fool.
UNKNOWN He who hesitates is last.
MAE WEST He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKS He who hesitates is last
MAE WEST Even if the law doesn't allow it, he will go back. Even if he is arrested, he will go back.
SATOMI KATAOKA He who hesitates is probably right.
BOGOVICH He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
JAMES THURBER One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
JUDE MORGAN A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.
JAMES CHILES That was massive. We wanted to have a little more leeway (in the seventh). But even more (importantl...
GEORGE HANSEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unho...
RITA COOLIDGE Now it's even more safe to go.
COREY TUCCI Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll ha...
CHELSEA HANDLER I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever he...
ANI DIFRANCO Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.
TOBA BETA Presumably they'll have to go back and craft a more responsible plan.
BECKY KELLEY A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY PORTER A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
HENRY PORTER The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, ...
NHAT HANH Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what,...
BILL MAHER I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nic...
DAVID SYLVIAN I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
FIONA APPLE The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I got a little over 200 myself and I'll go back to the same people this time and then go back to oth...
DAVE STUDER I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there'...
EVELYN ASHFORD I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably ...
JOHN MCENROE No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you...
DAVID AXELROD Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For w...
BILL MAHER I am not a cat burglar. I just went in to get some baby pictures, some books and other things.
MASON WILLIAMS The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...
SAMUEL BECKETT If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Obviously, he was specific in looking for electronics, and this church has them. It's unusual for a ...
CARL DUKE I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diver...
LARRY HAGMAN I wouldn't even call it an injury. It's good to be back. I'm ready to go.
JUAN CASTRO We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a w...
HUBIE BROWN One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.
JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ...
FRANK DEFORD Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
UNKNOWN He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
ANONYMOUS He has come back approximately an hour late, even more, ... He has expressed his disrespect for the ...
GERALD HARRIS I do not even know where my wife and two daughters are. I just want to get a little help getting est...
ERVIN DOYLE Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN Many of them, they come back and they go out again. They come back for a visit, or they come back at...
ERNESTO PERNIA Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college profess...
MAYA ANGELOU Her chances of qualifying are still good, even though it's a more difficult way to go.
ED KAIHATSU While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming...
HENRY C. LINK I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, dr...
BRUCE STERLING Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars...
CHARLES DUKE Each time there is a back-to-school session more students go online. We expect this back-to-school s...
RICHARD DAVIES A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
It's a very doable path to get there. The mayor does not believe that we need to go back to the vote...
MARIANNE BICHSEL We're seeing properties that go for $20 million or more that don't even have an acre of land.
JOYCE REY Monkeybrain is on treasure hunt. This Monkey is back to pop even more balloons.
LILY CHATTERJEE "That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar...
GARY GAMBARDELLA One of our biggest concerns is to find the burglar and to recover these items as well as the keys.
JIM SHIRES Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER Everyone should go to Take Back the Night. Even if you're not a victim, you should support the aware...
KAYLA PARKER It works like a burglar alarm, a beam that goes across a doorway. Once the beam is broken it trigger...
AMYAS GODFREY

More Isoroku Yamamoto

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild ...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance f...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I di...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so tha...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to ...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawai...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into intercep...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequen...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they ar...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being car...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke w...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on t...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life ...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route,...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO I am glad to be talking to him.
ALAN YAMAMOTO Our win was the constitutional right of the defendant to have access to the witnesses even though th...
ALAN YAMAMOTO I think both sides won, and both sides lost,
ALAN YAMAMOTO We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,
ALAN YAMAMOTO He's running the show,
ALAN YAMAMOTO I am going to attempt to see him again.
ALAN YAMAMOTO He appears to understand that.
ALAN YAMAMOTO I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose ...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were the...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Thin...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concent...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goe...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice b...
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
YOHJI YAMAMOTO I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disor...
YOHJI YAMAMOTO It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you wi...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were the...
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Even though fees are falling, the online brokers only offer stock trading and have almost nothing el...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO I want to commend it as an epoch-making move for the BOJ that would bring transparency to its policy...
KOZO YAMAMOTO The 17,000 level isn't only the highest in more than five years, but it's also technical resistance....
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO Nie­ka­da ne­gal­vok, jog pa­sie­kei pa­kan­ka­mą su­vo­ki­mo laips­nį. Vi­suo­met ...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Apskritai žmonės at­ro­do pri­slėg­ti. Ta­čiau, kai žmo­gus yra ty­ros dva­sios ir šva...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Pa­pras­tai as­muo, ku­ris gar­sė­ja kaip dau­ge­lio sri­čių ži­no­vas, lai­ko­mas ...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Be to, ren­gos mo­ky­to­jo pa­mo­ky­muo­se kal­ba­ma, kad li­kus die­nai iki po­eti­ni...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Be to, nepamiršk, ką iš­gir­do šven­ti­kas Rio­dza­nas lan­ky­da­ma­sis Kamiga­tos sr...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Kai ta­vo pro­tas blaš­ko­si tai šen, tai ten, ap­mąs­ty­mai niekuomet ne­virs tei­sin­...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Papras­ti žmo­nės tvir­tai lai­ko­si sa­vo nuo­mo­nės ir to­dėl re­tai pranoks­ta ki�...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Nors ne­va­lia leis­ti ki­tiems va­do­vau­ti, bū­ti vai­din­gam, ne­iš­auk­lė­tam a...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do ...
HIROSHI YAMAMOTO It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That ...
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO A man who can reason over trifles will become conceited, and will take pleasure in being described a...
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO The health aspect of this animal is what should be the standard for the U. S. cattle herd. If I can ...
GARY YAMAMOTO Once I got into it and learned all the aspects -- the health as well as the good taste, I was hooked...
GARY YAMAMOTO I had expected a market correction of an almost 10 percent fall sometime between January and March.
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO A sudden jump in trading volume like this would catch off-guard any exchange (in industrialized coun...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO Technology shares here got a lift from strong gains in the Nasdaq index as many investors here regar...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO While it may be temporary, the major risks we see for Japanese stocks right now are the Iranian situ...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO (The takeover) helps us to anticipate future restructuring in the retail sector. For example, we can...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO This market just keeps going and going and people are betting on even further gains. Strength in eco...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO When a catastrophic event happens, such as the Hurricane Katrina, there is always rebuilding demand ...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of se...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO Most members at Japanese golf courses are corporate, so investing in a golf-course stock is like inv...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO I want to commend it as an epoch-making move for the BOJ that will bring transparency to its policy.
KOZO YAMAMOTO We will never let the BOJ repeat the mistake the bank made in August 2000.
KOZO YAMAMOTO So long as there is a solid framework in place, it's up to the BOJ.
KOZO YAMAMOTO Zero percent is still deflation.
KOZO YAMAMOTO I've never seen anything like it.
KAZUYA YAMAMOTO I do not think China will take the bold course of doing that. But this persistent speculation could ...
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO The expectations are fluctuating day by day, so there's no clear direction at the moment.
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO We expect an increase of about 300,000 jobs. Strong figures in the data are likely to spur dollar bu...
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO The European economy is on course for a good recovery and the ECB is likely to raise rates to 2.75 p...
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO The smaller figure is already a negative factor for the dollar. General sentiment for the dollar is ...
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO The currency market will be more volatile than before. The sensitivity to the upcoming data will be ...
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO Depending on the economic indicators, the currency market will be more volatile than before.
MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO Treasuries can still fall some more. Some people are worried about the outlook for inflation because...
MASATSUGU YAMAMOTO We are still seeing strength in the labor market with wages rising. We are waiting for further decli...
MASATSUGU YAMAMOTO There is some room for the market to rally in the next few weeks. We are looking for opportunities t...
MASATSUGU YAMAMOTO There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO