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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.


George R.R. Martin

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MICHAEL GOVE The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
SUNDAY ADELAJA I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES It's nice to know Martin touched people in that way ? that the people still stay in contact and want...
MICHAEL MCGOWAN Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.
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DARIUS RUCKER Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
STIEG LARSSON I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT Ethics are not always ethical just as morals are not always moral.
DEBASISH MRIDHA People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to f...
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ROGER SPOTTISWOODE I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values,...
ANGIE HARMON I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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JANICE HARVEY Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't beensaying, 'You all, make shitty records...
KID ROCK With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
BOB BECKEL I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a ...
GARY COLE If you want to learn about a certain era, their morals, their ethics, their beliefs, look at their l...
JACOB MAHURIEN I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
EDEN SHER I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sig...
ITALO CALVINO It's economics principles put on in a fun way. And we throw a little ethics in there, too.
BLAKE BRADLEY War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Mostly, we went back to people we went to the first time. We were a little embarrassed about it but ...
BEV CORTIANA They were a little nervous, but mostly excited.
ANN WILLIAMS I don't know why they waited to the last minute to leave Paris. But they had amazing foresight and l...
LOUISE BORDEN Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a (expletive) dream, too.
SARAH SILVERMAN Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around y...
DAVID GERROLD The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been
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KID ROCK Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
ILONA ANDREWS We're Muslims like they are. It is not possible that Islam says to kill these people. And there's no...
SAMI HASSOUN We had to settle down. We were too geared up to play and once we settled down it was too little, too...
CORY SCHAEFER We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised...
ERIN FOSTER It's a free world to do as you please, within the law, however it's also free to have an opinion - a...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It's a free world to do as you please, within the law, however it's also free to have an opinion - a...
AULIQ-ICE . . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more i...
JODI PICOULT ​Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play t...
VINEET RAJ KAPOOR I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to c...
BEN BASS If we had a big Apple Records lawyers meeting or something, and we were sitting there and John was b...
YOKO ONO The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperb...
CHRISTINE QUINN [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 The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...
WILLIAM GOLDING If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them ins...
A.J. DARKHOLME ... As Weber suggests, once science is employed to justify and enact ideal values, especially throug...
NICHOLAS GANE I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, mo...
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
ANDREW YOUNG My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyer...
MARIO CUOMO Most people (who) came in had situations that were lingering a little bit too long. They really shou...
CHARLES ROSSOTTI If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideol...
CHARLES MICHEL Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
CHESTER BOWLES People were stressed and had nobody to talk to. Most people weren't happy to be there, but some were...
DR. JOSEPHINE BEEBE Martin was the catalyst ... he had been producing light comedy and classical until then and had no e...
MARK MAXSON I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
HARRY DEAN STANTON When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all ...
MARC MARON I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
MADONNA CICCONE I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
MADONNA It was a pretty good turnout in spite of the weather, and the crowd was very well behaved. We made a...
INSPECTOR DANIEL JACKSON They understood their roles in how we wanted to break the press. These are mostly guys up from the J...
BRIAN ELLIS The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our...
CASEY AFFLECK The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on...
RICH LITTLE It's me, a private citizen, against three lawyers. It will be a lot more difficult, but the Ethics C...
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BILL DEDMAN They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too genero...
DAVID SEDARIS We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny...
DAVID DAVIES Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we b...
TENZIN GYATSO THE 14TH DALAI LAMA Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we b...
DALAI LAMA XIV I went to the school of Lord Henry Wotton. There I learnt that, if a chap is to have some fun, moral...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL I think we were a little anxious in the second game. I think we were almost trying too hard. We just...
KATEY KREIDER Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral co...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER [At the scene of a murder]

The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made ...
SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them...
PAUL GRAHAM The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, ...
JODI PICOULT Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.
ADI GODREJ Yeah, I think that's the business model we mostly believe in. There could be things that come along ...
PATRICK HUDSON I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Mak...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fond of doctors, little health, Fond of lawyers, little wealth
PROVERB The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then aga...
HERMAN SMITH-JOHANNSEN Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals
MARK TWAIN The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our...
CASEY AFFLECK There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.
ADI GODREJ Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
BYRD BAGGETT

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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everyt...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Bear and the Maiden Fair


A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When they finally broke apart, Ygritte was flushed. "You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a lit...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as th...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fear cuts deeper than swords.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”
“If you want to conquer the world, you...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...
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...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Those are brave men... lets go kill them
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
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 You were made to be kissed, often and well.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different co...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.

"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout h...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I wan...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who fears losing has already lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A Lannister always pays his debts.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!�...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not te...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and moun...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
- Daenerys Targaryen
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was all too much. For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the wi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. A...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing burns like the cold.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I look back I am lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every flight begins with a fall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
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?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
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 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