Jaehaerys I Quotes & Sayings

It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one. — Nicholas Sparks

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose. — Herbert Croly

Sir 19:25 And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it. — Various

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. — J.K. Rowling

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. — Stanley Kunitz

The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were not ... "
" ... my father's daughter?" If she was not her father's daughter, who was she?
" ... mad," he finished. "But I see no taint in you."
"Taint?" Dany bristled.
"I am no maester to quote history at you, Your Grace. Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its to see how it will land. — George R R Martin

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. — Norton Juster

Chapter 4,'Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief', uses Zizek's (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse. The central argument of this chapter is that organised abuse has come to public attention primarily as a subject of ridicule within the highly partisan writings of journalists, academics and activists aligned with advocacy groups for people accused of sexual abuse. Whilst highlighting the pervasive misrepresentations that characterise these accounts, the chapter also implicates media consumers in the production of ignorance and disdain in relation to organised abuse and women's and children's accounts of sexual abuse more generally. — Michael Salter

You don't ever expect to fall in love with words. No one can anticipate such a thing. But should it happen, God help you, because it will seem that no existent man is enough; none can equal what you have perfected in your mind. — Jennifer DeLucy

The simple things in life make me very happy. — Samantha Fox

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. — Sallust

King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. — George R R Martin

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. — Eric Linklater