A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
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RAE CARSON I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.
CHARLES ATLAS The number seven is magical, they say. Seven years ’til our cells completely regenerate. Seven yea...
CHILA WOYCHIK Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.
ANWAR ROBINSON The information superhighway is littered with so much roadkill.
ANDY SEVEN I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiin...
SPALDING GRAY What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse numb...
ELIZABETH SPELKE Death Is Conquered Though We Slumber, Seven Is The Perfect Number.
LARRY NORMAN It's a big difference when you can count that seven points. The extra point can turn a ball game aro...
BEN STEELE 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES Chris Martin - what are those seven deadly sins again? Greed? Sloth? Calling your child Apple?
JUSTIN HAWKINS The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a pri...
STEVE JOBS Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's sup...
STEPHEN KING The facility operates seven days a week with double the number of animals ... the shelter that was b...
DIANE SAUVE A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
ENGLISH PROVERB The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my...
CHARLES DICKENS The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
BIBLE Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes.
TOBA BETA Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN We can go in a seven county area.
GLENNA BORHO Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
ENGLISH PROVERB Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew
from his extensiv...
JULIA QUINN These plans can be a hassle to use. You have to dial seven digits before the number you wish to call...
LINDA SHERRY You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
RUDYARD KIPLING We'd prefer to have a seven-day break, but there's not much you can do about it.
BRIAN COOK For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. Proverbs 24:16
BIBLE For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]
BIBLE For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].
BIBLE I discovered that you can actually do it in about seven minutes.
DONALD BYRD A clear passion, a resolute determination, a can-do spirit; these are the rods for creating a great ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do not speak ill of the dead.
THE SEVEN SAGES I don't want to wait another seven years to make a movie,
ERIC KHOO Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
DOLLY PARTON We look forward to becoming the number seven company worldwide in the pharmaceutical industry.
WERNING WENNING For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again... Proverbs 24:16
BIBLE It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN They have seven guys who all play a great deal, so it's like having seven starters. Everyone I talk ...
GARY MERRELL Felix,” he whispered. “Oh, little man. Oh, Felix. That fire… the fire is
beautiful.
T.J. KLUNE Make it a rule to pass out seven or eight cards every day,
BILL HOPKINS For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows
GERMAN PROVERB 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 Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.
BENH ZEITLIN I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL I can confirm seven dead, but the situation is changing.
JAROSLAW WOJTASIK We played with a lot of heart for seven periods.
EARL BOYKINS Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The seven words George Carlin said you couldn’t say on TV or radio (“fuck,” “piss,” “shi...
MARY NORRIS I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And it lists the eight top cities in the United States and we were number seven.
GILES VANDERHOOF And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;...
BIBLE If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of...
S. TRUETT CATHY Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
ANONYMOUS The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of
millions of vibrations have penetrate ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Each man must make is own sacred journey.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.
BIBLE The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
BIBLE Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our kids played really well against a team with seven seniors.
BRIAN MENY Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they h...
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Fire ants can sting and bite, and can do that seven or eight times within the same general area.
JOHN CLAYPOOL Their errors have been costly to Martin County taxpayers, and an escalating seven-year disaster for ...
DAVID SHORE Each episode is going to have a number of puzzles for viewers to solve, and there are six or seven d...
WENTWORTH MILLER And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days ...
BIBLE I tried to maybe cut it back to six days instead of seven, and when I feel guilty I do seven days.
LOIS BOONE Seven days is the length of a guest's life
BURMESE PROVERB One failure is worth seven and a half successes
ELI KHAMAROV Seven points is a lot but it is not insurmountable,
ALEX FERGUSON We stayed with them the whole way. Seven goals on a program like that is respectable.
JEFF GOLDBERG He made a statement to this man that hed just killed three people in Seven Mile Ford,
DAVID BRADLEY Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
WALT STREIGHTIFF Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70...
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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