Crakehall Asoiaf Quotes & Sayings

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened
hard to live with it. — Frank Beddor

Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art. — William Shakespeare

puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We — Daniel Kahneman

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. — George Montgomery

Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity. — Jan Hunt

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment. — Jonathan Haidt

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson

With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there. — Trisha Leaver

I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television. — Sara Gilbert

People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it. — Michael Monroe

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

A gigantic golden statue of Zeus had originally stood at the entrance, always looking down on the Titans in their new homes, but Hades had it moved and melted down well before I was born. Ensuring your prisoners were behaving was one thing, but antagonizing them every single day with a gleaming thirty-foot statue of the person who had defeated them was only going to end in rebellion and more death. — Steve McHugh

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible! — T. B. Joshua

He said something like that:
"In all languages in the world, there is the same proverb: 'What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.' Well, I say that there isn't any ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we're far from exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we're far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.
At the end of the service, I went up to him and thanked him: I said I was a stranger in a strange land, and I thanked him for reminding me that what the eyes don't see, the heart does grieve over. And my heart has grieved so much, that today I'm leaving. — Paulo Coelho

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. — Sharon Salzberg