Popana Quotes & Sayings

Dothraki hooves had torn the earth and trampled the rye and lentils into the ground, while arakhs and arrows had sown a terrible new crop and watered it with blood. Dying horses lifted their heads and screamed at her as she rode past. Wounded men moaned and prayed. Jaqqa rhan moved among them, the mercy men with their heavy axes, taking a harvest of heads from the dead and dying alike. After them would scurry a flock of small girls, pulling arrows from the corpses to fill their baskets. Last of all the dogs would come sniffing, lean and hungry, the feral pack that was never far behind the khalasar. — George R R Martin

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions. — Rodney Stark

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation between word and meaning between writer and word is theoretical. — Jeanette Winterson

small gully where the red mud had dried and cracked in a system of parched veins. — Paula McLain

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere. — Scott McClellan

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East. — Jeffrey Goldberg

We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody. — Bob Anderson

We are trying to retrain our responses and form mental habits that are kinder, gentler, and less fearful of others. — Karen Armstrong

I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States. — Barack Obama

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest. — Richard Pryor