Renly Baratheon Book Quotes & Sayings

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains — John Grisham

Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country. — Barack Obama

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave. — Latrell Sprewell

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? — Elizabeth Gilbert

I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence. — Andy Kindler

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell

But the more I read ... after awhile ... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene ... Shakespeare, Milton, Matthew Arnold, even Baudelaire, even this cat whoever he was that wrote Beowulf ... the same scene for the same reasons and to the same end, whether it was Dante with his pit or Baudelaire with his pot ... the same dull old scene ... — Ken Kesey

In 2007, the top 1 percent earned 23.5 percent of all income, more than the bottom 50 percent. The top 1 percent now owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. That is not the foundation of a democratic society. That is the foundation for an oligarchic society. The rich get richer. The middle class shrinks. Poverty increases. — Bernie Sanders

Our response to an event is more important than the event itself. — Angeles Arrien

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.' — Charles Spurgeon

The thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting — Alexander McCall Smith

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc. — John Green

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word — Emily Dickinson