Life Quotes

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Terry Pratchett

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Clint Catalyst

Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

Darren T. Patrick

The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Lee Battersby

The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by envi...

Christopher Isherwood

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

Matthew Woodring Stover

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

Jessica Sorensen

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

George R.R. Martin

And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me why but he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I cant like you,either.

Alane Ferguson

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

George R.R. Martin

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

George R.R. Martin

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

Clare B. Dunkle

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

George R.R. Martin

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

... there is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should is because they have organised their lives in such a way that there is nothing...

Franklin Lushington

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

The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

George R.R. Martin

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

George R.R. Martin

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

Tom Clancy

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

George R.R. Martin

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.