George R. R. Martin Quotes
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
-
If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
-
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
-
I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
-
I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
-
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
-
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
-
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
-
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
-
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
-
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
-
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
-
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
-
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
-
I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
-
I am not afraid to go to jail.
-
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
-
When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.
-
If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.
-
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
-
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
-
Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.
-
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
-
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
