Tyrion Blackwater Quotes & Sayings

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess — Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is no house like the house of belonging. — David Whyte

They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm. — William F. Buckley Jr.

It was as if Joe had given him wings, the wings his own father should have given him long ago, the sense a boy should have that he could jump and wouldn't fall, would fly, and if he failed to fly, he'd be caught, safe and sound. "Thanks. — Brad Vance

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time. — Nicole Kidman

What are you waiting for?" he screamed, launching himself at Liraz. With a neat step and parry she sent him face-first into the ground, and with one well-placed kick turned him over, gasping, onto his back. "Kill me!" he coughed out, lying there. "I know you want to!"
But she just shook her head and smiled, and Jael wanted to howl, because her smile had ... plans in it, and in those plans, he saw, there would be no easy death. — Laini Taylor

Sam's mother used to say that inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. The professor could have his ghosts. Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery. That was the only magic Sam knew or trusted. — Libba Bray

What the hell was I thinking? that wasn't funny. It was supposed to be funny, but it's after midnight, and I'm never funny after midnight — Colleen Hoover

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him. — Mark Twain

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. — J.D. Salinger

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway. — Danny DeVito

Out of the blue, someone can just walk into your life, and make you realize why things never worked out with anyone else. And this is the person you were meant to be with ... forever. — Jose N. Harris

The best way to get what you
want from a situation is to have
clarity about the outcome you
want to achieve. — Domonique Bertolucci