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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.


George R.R. Martin

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VICTOR HUGO I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
IAN HART I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.
HENRY IV Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
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ZHANG XIANGCHEN Don is our George Martin,
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OSCAR LEVANT I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi...
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JOE E. LEWIS The use of a two syllable vulgarity by the chairman was rather ambitious,
MIKE MCCURRY I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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JODI PICOULT Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
SENECA Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
JOE E. LEWIS I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hu...
JENNA DEWAN Don’t give me advice. I would rather take money than advice.
VIKRANT PARSAI Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
YOLANDI VISSER I don't think we've been influenced massively by our success and by our travels. The lyrics [singer ...
GUY BERRYMAN I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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ROY HARPER I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fa...
JON KRAKAUER Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
ALBERT CAMUS Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever l...
CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
IDA LUPINO We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more w...
NATE RUESS I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something stric...
FRANZ KAFKA I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
RALPH ABERNATHY I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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MIKE A. LANCASTER Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo...
EMMA GOLDMAN It is a more honorable approach than the Red Sea parting shower curtain.
HANS ZIMMER It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it
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WOODY ALLEN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
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WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
SHAWN MENDES Give help rather than advice.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Give help rather than advice.
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ANDY ROBINSON By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr...
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ENYA Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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STEPHEN COLBERT [Stares at dead knight, killed by the Direwolves]

Ersen: If he had sounded his horn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Somehow, the small things people do and say means more to me than big ones. Small things seem more s...
MJ CHRISTINE I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do wel...
ABBY WAMBACH Id rather fail a million times than give up, for to fail again means to succeed once more but to giv...
MOE ZEE Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
JEFFREY ARCHER I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON Your enemies follow you more ,than your friends .
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NIGEL FARAGE Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...
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SIDONIE GABRIELLE I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we cal...
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Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
SARA TEASDALE People are so stubborn they would rather sleep in their bed of nails rather than in my bed of flower...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON My Enemies are the ones I fear.
JOSHUA THOMPSON He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbi...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
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CORNELIA DEKKER A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing not...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing no...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When something hurts them, they weep.
By night, they rest, they sleep
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- Daenerys Targaryen
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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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 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