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Gods Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
- Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
- Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
- What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift…
- The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song.…
- So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for…
- What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or…
- Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
- One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods…
- Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.
- Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a…
- Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little…
- 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…
- We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses,…
- The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.
- In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
- True knights protect the weak.” He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and…
- The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
- Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
- If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.
- The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
- It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do…
- I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only…
- There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our…
- It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of… — Charles A. Beard
- Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. — Aeschylus
- Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
- Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He… — David Bowie
- Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods.… — Dan Brown
- When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I… — Leon Battista Alberti
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
- Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell