Warren Murphy > Quotes

“Smile! Tom orrow will be worse!”
― Murphy

“If something bad can happen, it will.”
― Murphy

“When God created man,” Chiun had said, “he put a lump of clay in the oven. And when he took it out, he said, ‘It is underdone. This is no good. I have created a white man.’ Then he put another lump of clay in the oven, and to compensate for his error, he left it in longer. When he took it out, he said, ‘Oh, I have failed again. I have left it in too long. This is no good. I have created a black man.’ And then he put another lump of clay in the oven, this time a superior clay, molded with more care and love and integrity, and when he took it out, he said: ‘Oh, I have done it just right. I have created the yellow man.’ “And then to this man in whom he was pleased he gave a mind. To the Chinese, he gave lust and dishonesty. To the Japanese, he gave arrogance and greed. To the Koreans, he gave honesty, courage, integrity, discipline, beauty of thought, heart and wisdom. And because he had given them so much, he said, ‘I shall also give them poverty and conquerors because they have been given more already than any other man on earth. They are truly the perfect people in my sight, and in their wonderfulness, I am well pleased.’” Remo”
― Warren Murphy, Death Therapy

“Do you risk a lot to win a little? No. That’s stupid. But I’m asking you to risk a little to get a lot. It’s like believing in God.” “What is?” “Risk-reward. Everybody ought to believe in God. The risk is kind of little, going to church once in a while, maybe saying a prayer when there’s nothing good on television. Probably there isn’t any God. But if there is, the reward is pretty damn enormous when you’re dead, sitting up there on a cloud, watching all those atheists skulking along with pitchforks stuck up their asses. Risk and reward. The ratio is what’s important.”
― Warren Murphy, Smoked Out

“then called out, in his squeaky little voice, but still in the manner of generations of musicians pleased with themselves: "ONE MORE TIME!”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“History lives on, without us knowing about it. It does not always repeat itself but it frequently rhymes. I am here to remind you of the rhyme.”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“Seen anything of Mack Bolan around?” Someone”
― Warren Murphy, Summit Chase

“There was silence, all the louder for having been broken once.”
― Warren Murphy, Created, The Destroyer

“We are but vassals, enthralled by your beauty and charm,”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“When you give your life to something, your life goes with it.”
― Warren Murphy, The Best of the Destroyer: Chinese Puzzle, Slave Safari, Assassin's Playoff

“Anger will destroy you faster than any turtle. Anger robs the mind of its eyes of reason. And you live by your mind. We are weaker than the buffalo and slower than the horse. Our nails are not so sharp as the lion’s. But where we walk, we rule. The difference is our minds. Anger clouds our minds.”
― Warren Murphy, Death Therapy

“Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.”
― Warren Murphy, King's Curse

“You are allowed to dance, Remo, if you wish. Cut a carpet.”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“He went through the pictures again in his mind,”
― Warren Murphy, Death Check

“He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often,” Chiun had said, and this had”
― Warren Murphy, Ship of Death

“With moderate tolerance for you, I am forever, Chiun Master of Sinanju.”
― Warren Murphy, Created, The Destroyer

“That was America. What the radicals of both the left and right hated about it was its very humanity.”
― Warren Murphy, Murder's Shield

“People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.”
― Warren Murphy, Chinese Puzzle

“Your life is God’s gift. Your deeds are God’s reward. And God watches.”
― Warren Murphy, Destroyer World: The Way Of The Assassin

“He was, after all, a Chinese emperor and not to be trusted.' "'How did you know?' "'Because I am not Chinese and therefore not an idiot and so I was on to him immediately.”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“To gain the right to pray when it rains, one must also pray when the sun shines.”
― Warren Murphy, Destroyer World: The Way Of The Assassin

“There was once an emperor of a far-off land who was as happy as a man could be, despite having three wives.”
― Warren Murphy, Savage Song

“A boast is bad enough but a successful boast is worse because it encourages other boasts, and they surely will cost in price. Nothing in this world is without payment.”
― Warren Murphy, The Best of the Destroyer: Chinese Puzzle, Slave Safari, Assassin's Playoff

“But didn’t you always tell me, Chiun, that pain is the price one pays to stay alive. Pain belongs to the living. Only the dead never hurt.”
― Warren Murphy, The Best of the Destroyer: Chinese Puzzle, Slave Safari, Assassin's Playoff

“True love is doing what is good for a person.  False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.”
― Warren Murphy, Destroyer World: The Way Of The Assassin

“training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you”
― Warren Murphy, The Last Temple

“Chiun had often warned him against thinking too much, lest his greater senses be dulled to the subtleties of the moment.”
― Warren Murphy, King's Curse

“Sloth, negligence, bad diet could hold them back, and proper breathing was the portal that opened up that other realm.”
― Warren Murphy, Bamboo Dragon

“I do not like your breathing,” he said. “My breathing is the same as yesterday, Little Father,” said Remo. “That is why I do not like it. It should be quieter within you today.” “Why?” “Because today you are different.” “In what way, Little Father?” “That is for you to understand. When you do not know how you are each day, then you lose sight of yourself. Know this, no man has ever had two days alike.”
― Warren Murphy, The Best of the Destroyer: Chinese Puzzle, Slave Safari, Assassin's Playoff

“one could not choose one’s family, but one could certainly choose one’s manners.”
― Warren Murphy, King's Curse