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MICHAEL GOVE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The only question that got any traction was when he asked Martin what he did. Martin tersely replied...
SCOTT MEYER 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes onl...
WHY THE LUCKY STIFF Don is our George Martin,
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BILLY JOEL Whom the gods love die young, that’s why only the gods love war.
VIKRANT PARSAI Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS When people think of students singing, they probably envision sixth-graders, right? What they get wi...
MICHAEL VAN WHY There is really no one who hasn't made mistakes in their career. I'm always shocked that peo...
JAMES CORDEN If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so ...
BLAISE PASCAL Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?
RICK RIORDAN To announce that you have really made it is with a Bentley or Aston Martin. There are common reasons...
JOE DE MATIO Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?-- Once taug...
AARON HILL For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
JIMMY DEAN For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
JAMES ALLEN For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .
JAMES ALLEN For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .
JAMES ALLEN My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Em...
HILLARY CLINTON The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY I don't know why they picked on me like that.
LUCY STEWART Even cats have questions – like “Can’t you see my bowl is empty?” or “Why don’t you turn...
JAY WOODMAN The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, '...
ALESSIA CARA For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEY So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix.
“God, not gods!” insisted Johnnie.
...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
RAVI SHANKAR It really made me think about why everybody around me went and I didn't.
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GWYNN THOMAS Why do you watch me burn in the cold,dark-red fire? Like hope that never last Why do you cut me on t...
RYAN B LUNDQUIST - Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that mat...
KURT VONNEGUT If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...
HERACLITUS My captors did not beat me or treat me badly. They saw me as a political tool and that is why they m...
PHIL SANDS Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we ar...
RICHARD PUZ Why live for the day, when you know the next one is going to be exactly the same.
HUGO SVENSSON Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifi...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
OSCAR WILDE It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
SARAH DESSEN The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is wh...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why...
MARTIN LUTHER KING When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
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BOBBY W. MILLER Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed...
ASIF KAPADIA George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war, ... tells me why my ...
CINDY SHEEHAN I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI Why? Why would they just take my daddy away from me? That would be my question; why?
MICHELLE JOHNSON Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
NADIA COMANECI I feel like that is disrespect for me as a coach. If I can bring players in recruiting-wise, why can...
MIKE DAVIS Why don't you like me ?" "Because you never stay with me.
E.L. JAMES God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided fo...
DREW BARRYMORE I made my lifelong dream of attending Harvard University a reality when I realized someone has to do...
THOMAS J. POWELL I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understan...
STEVEN H. ROBERTS I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understan...
STEPHEN ROBERTS I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?'...
CHRIS CARLISLE My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
RHYS IFANS Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing....
DON RICKLES Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to as...
STEPHEN KING O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?
LUDOVICK BARRY O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them?
LUDOVICK BARRY What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, S...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
JODI PICOULT God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided fo...
DREW BARRYMORE If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often.
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JOHN LEWIS You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!
ARTHUR COHN He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing.

"Why wou...
RICHELLE MEAD And then a friend convinced me, 'George, you are making all these companies wealthy, why don't you g...
GEORGE FOREMAN No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't beensaying, 'You all, make shitty records...
KID ROCK The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need...
SHANNON L. ALDER The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching...
MALCOLM X My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed t...
DUANE CHAPMAN I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions ...
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NENIA CAMPBELL I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?
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DAME EDITH SITWELL We Are All Zeros But We Can Make Ourselves As Heroes
DR. ARUN S SON “Why are some born loved and why are some born unloved? Who decides the "why"? What is the "why"? ...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'ROURKE The problem is why Bush at this time made this kind of statement.
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BOB BERLIN Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'
'Because usually I have.' And the way ...
MICHELLE HODKIN Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different,...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid e...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
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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 ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear.
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