A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.
George R.R. Martin
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SEAN BEAN I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE It's not the spirit of a man that grows weary, it's the mind that fails to acknowledge.
DEBORAH SIMPSON Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel s...
DAN WALKER Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Jesus hath many love...
THOMAS À KEMPIS The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary ...
JON ENGLISH I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
CICERO That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE SR. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE, SR. I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with th...
JONATHAN MABERRY My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium ex...
KILROY J. OLDSTER No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder o...
HOLLY BLACK The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the ...
ROBIN HOBB [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The North remembers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT 'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Is Jase already gonna marry you?”
I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.
MARTIN MULL [Stares at dead knight, killed by the Direwolves]
Ersen: If he had sounded his horn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
...
THOMAS HOOD George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be eit...
ALAN GOLDSHER A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stair...
JOHN STEINBECK War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
NAPOLEON HILL My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing...
LOUIS NIZER A man who claims to be happy with his married life is either pretending or having no proper understa...
ANUJ SOMANY Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY An adult is a person who no longer grows in height, but instead grows in length and width.
ANONYMOUS A man having no ambition in life is a ship having no rudder in the sea.
VIKRANT PARSAI One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels a...
CRISS JAMI Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderwe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th...
JOHN STEINBECK Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.
THOMAS à KEMPIS With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying...
THOMAS HOOD Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki...
RON FOURNIER But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note...
BIBLE We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN George is a compassionate man.
DON BECK A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases; ANONYMOUS I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Mak...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release woul...
HENRY S. HASKINS A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Man and Woman I (Lovers I),
EGON SCHIELE No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, ...
DUDLEY NORTH I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
BERNARD M. BARUCH When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve i...
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younge...
ALEXANDER POPE George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing...
METTE IVIE HARRISON Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the fi...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH A coward's heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.
“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN