Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
George R.R. Martin
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MICHAEL GOVE Life is a sorrow, without a song.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you ma...
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ALEX GRAVES I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. MARILYN NELSON While others allow failure to define them, others
allow lack or abundance to define them. You c...
D.S. MASHEGO While others allow failure to define them, others
allow lack or abundance to define them. You c...
D.S MASHEGO Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life lon...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Marti...
VOLTAIRE Work on your life carefully, it may have holes, and it may not be perfect, but if you play it right,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it.
If you are here to be offended, ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
JOHN GREEN Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.
LISA SCHROEDER Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower,...
LEIGH BARDUGO Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you.
C. ELIZABETH
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a worl...
SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ...
MICHAEL JACKSON May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing...
D. SIMONE You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.
CHINESE PROVERBS I know that I don't know
All that I think I know.
I know that I may not see all
Of th...
JORDAN HOECHLIN Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no re...
JOHN LENNON The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
SAI BABA How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER You are created to learn that God is your life
SUNDAY ADELAJA To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working...
JOEL OSTEEN Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish ...
PAM BROWN A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.
MUNIA KHAN Someday,” she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, “I’m going to break your neck...
NALINI SINGH The Blessing #1:
May your eyes be profitable,
may your ears be dutiful,
may you...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Instead of a bucket list Someday Challenge™ wants you to create your Someday Slate™, a list of t...
DAVID A. KOOP Once your blood runs garnet and gold, you need to learn the song.
JASON JOHNSTON The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
the more joy you can contain.
Is not the c...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then ...
NATHAN SCOTT WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an Adventure ... Dare it
Life is a Beauty ... Praise it
Life is a Cha...
ANON. Wanting has to go. Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” ...
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI You are not the only one who is struggling- look around you, others too are in the same boat. Who sa...
LATIKA TEOTIA Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Have a shower, Si," George urged. "Start the day refreshed. Maybe style your hair a little. It would...
CASSANDRA CLARE Arrogance never takes you anywhere. If you're arrogant and try to subvert your subordinates just rem...
HIMMILICIOUS In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG Swallowing that chocolate you just ate
May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexio...
KEVIN MISSEN As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that your journey be a long one,
filled wit...
BARRY B. POWELL Smile though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds, i...
JUDY GARLAND Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…
But what hurts more is knowing yo...
RANATA SUZUKI The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The s...
WILL DURANT May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are me...
TERESA OF ÁVILA YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.
TERRY PRATCHETT During a battle, you may escape with your life, but your property may not escape
SOTONYE ANGA Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The miracle of Life's song is in the song of the child, singing in a small clear voice. The very sam...
JILL ANZINGER Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your son...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you ca...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT You can't get rid of fear, you must learn to move through it.
Know that deep in your soul...
EILEEN ANGLIN May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
IRISH BLESSINGS what was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul is lift...
YASMINE GALENORN You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
STEVE MARTIN Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo...
C. JOYBELL C. 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 (Streets of Sorrow)
Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow
Oh, farewell you streets of pain THE POGUES Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life s...
MARTINA MCBRIDE May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day br...
IRISH BLESSINGS To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out to...
ANON. Refusing to accept the projections of others thrust onto you might save your life someday.
THEE AMAZING GRACE You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
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Any time you tolerate...
COLIN POWELL I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
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DAN RATHER If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to tha...
JAY ASHER If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that s...
JAY ASHER Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
If you're w...
BRIAN TRACY Someday you wake up and realize that your life has been so ordinary, what you don't realize is that ...
ZAIN UL ABIDEEN You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a pie...
RON RASH Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care...
THICH NHAT HANH The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
BARBARA SHER Life is your teacher. How can you learn to understand your truth, if you deny your reality?
LORRAINE NILON Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.
Life is spontaneous. MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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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 is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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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...
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 Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN