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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.


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NEIL GAIMAN A good act done at the wrong time is as bad as a bad act done at any time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad t...
DENNIS POTTER A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM BENNETT I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ...
AUGUSTUS HARE A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some mainta...
ARISTOTLE They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a bless...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING That's neither good nor bad. It's just pointing out that 3M's directors have a lot of clout.
JACKIE COOK A bad tree does not yield good apples
DANISH PROVERB Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. I...
W. M. L. JAY The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just ...
DEAN KOONTZ I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its...
SEANAN MCGUIRE The judge adhered to the basic democratic principles built into the Freedom of Information Act, ... ...
BILL GOODMAN Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over....
GARY F EVANS... Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf
BARUCH SPINOZA Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY When You Reward Bad Behavior Followed By Good Behavior, What You Get Is More Bad Behavior Followed B...
DONALD LYNN FROST There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life is neither good nor bad,
WALLY AMOS Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; th...
WILLIAM BLAKE The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C. A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's tr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. T...
FRANCINE RIVERS The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act i...
JOHN DELANEY One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to th...
BARUCH SPINOZA A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
MALCOLM BRADBURY People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have comm...
LEE GREENWOOD It's kind of a wash, but not bad,
LOUIS MILLER They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.
WILL ROGERS A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...
EDWARD ESBER It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.
MICHAEL ROMKEY I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence ...
GARY RYAN BLAIR Believe me, they act like they got money, but a million dollars is not bad.
FIGHT KLUB Why is partying and having a good time bad?
TARA REID I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person...
J.K. ROWLING Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this...
WARREN WEAVER Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.
ARBIE M. DALE Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and go...
ERIC BENTLY Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and goo...
ERIC BENTLEY People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN We act as if a left-wing agenda is something we should disavow. Of course we don't have an agenda, o...
T.J. KIRK My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH Whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare ...
QURAN In life there are many thing's you may not like or want but is necessary for stability and sustainab...
ANONYMOUSE And it does not feel good. It feels like a really, really bad paper cut.
CYNTHIA PERRINE When the week begins, think of how you will end it. When the week ends, think of how you did begin i...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
PATRICK NESS Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.
ITALIAN PROVERB Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
PAUL SIMON Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
THE BELZER RABBI Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you us...
WILLIE AAMES We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
PAUL RAND When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him...
MAIMONIDES That is neither particularly bad nor is it particularly good.
DAVID LENZE Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO I Can not be good and please everyone my bad day your bad day. Could we have been a good match anywa...
ROSE MESQUITA To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay ...
JEAN PIAGET Leaders act with visions; they don't react with emotions. Maturity is when you don't allow your bad ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to ...
MOHAMMED Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH It's been claimed chimpanzees act mainly for their own ends, but in our experiment there was no rewa...
FELIX WARNEKEN Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...
JOHAN HUIZINGA Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
ANTONIO PORCHIA The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you ha...
NICK CUMMINS There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA They have bad taste. I'm not a good looking guy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I am not as bad as others think nor as good as I think of myself.
JECON B. NADELA It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we don't get any bad bogeymen coming out of the closet, like hurricanes, it should be a good year...
JOSEPH CURATOLO The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led t...
RAND PAUL It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not wha...
PHIL OCHS I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before y...
DALE CARNEGIE Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to tea...
STEPHEN KING If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the ...
CONFUCIUS It's neither good nor bad that wins. It's always the same guy, Father Time.
BOBBY W. MILLER I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a ...
ADRIAN MCKINTY George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
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 The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming.
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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 A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
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 Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
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 In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
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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...
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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 Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN