Yoshijiro Umezu Quotes

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

You never know how people are going to respond.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

So many things could go wrong, on any film. I've been out in L.A. for eight years and I've been acting professionally for a long time, and you realize that you have to prepare and work hard, but you never know what could go wrong.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

War always takes you by surprise.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.