Bannermen Quotes & Sayings

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. — Richard Dawkins

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues. — Johnny Winter

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command. — George R R Martin

Is there a word for a thing you know you absolutely shouldn't do, that would be wrong in every way that matters to you, but that you're pretty sure you're going to do anyway? Or is that just - human? I — Elan Mastai

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. — Bobby Orr

The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools. — Richard Branson

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial. — Jerry Della Femina

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs. — Marshall McLuhan

He pictured Maizy here, permanently. His. He liked the idea so much it shocked him. And then he pictured her at his side when they got thrown off the land.
Rylan hated to see her go. But he knew if he talked her into staying permanently, he'd end up dragging her down with him when he failed. And that would hurt worse than broken ribs any day. — Mary Connealy

Do you not feel', said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, 'that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily. — Angela Carter

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY. — Hoodie Allen

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Bridget Regan

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one. — Pascal Boyer