Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse... ALGERNON SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Every new day provides for you the opportunity to be your very best SOTONYE ANGA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best. M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT What lies ahead of you is better than what you have already experienced. JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing SOTONYE ANGA Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones. JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL George R.R. Martin is not your bitch. NEIL GAIMAN Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a l... SAMUEL JOHNSON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans, August 15, 2016 PETRA HERMANS To be the best is a choice you make on your own SOTONYE ANGA Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfri... CECELIA AHERN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver. MATT DILLON Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for ... ROY T. BENNETT Or I will get the best or nothing… no need somebody to swallow my material, I'm already a big boy. DEYTH BANGER Good things done can be forgotten, bad things can always be remembered but a selfless deed always le... KISHAN S CHAUHAN Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality... SEAN BEAN The most important gap is that a whole host of disorders, called blood disorders, have been forgotte... JOHN ADAMS The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in... DEYTH BANGER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The best you can be
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is yourself. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example BRENT M. JONES But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. Sh... NAOMI NOVIK I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series. RAE CARSON We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it. JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the bes... W.G. SEBALD The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never... RICK RIORDAN There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are remembered and those who are forgotten. Th... LORRIN L. LEE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Only the forgotten are truly dead. TESS GERRITSEN Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. DEBASISH MRIDHA Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. UFUOMA APOKI This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma... MICHAEL GOVE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical id... G. H. HARDY The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil. APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh.
If the teacher ... APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont... APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff... ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr... APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying. APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come. DARIUSH YOUKHANEH At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Be you. It's life's best offer to others. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Is it better to be thought normal and be forgotten for achieving average things, or thought insane a... NIKKI SWEET Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe i... MILAN KUNDERA Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE HENNA SOHAIL Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have. LORRIN L. LEE Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Un... GERMANY KENT The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov... C. JOYBELL C. Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him f... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like ... RANDALL JARRELL A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and t... JULIE BURCHILL You mistake patience for forbearance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself. SIDNEY CROSBY Most people go from being born, to living life, and then be forgotten. LORRIN L. LEE
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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?" <... 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