"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared……" — George R. R. Martin
"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell."
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about.…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution…
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console…
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More Dared Quotes
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one of 232 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in…
— Jean Cocteau
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many…
— Maya Angelou
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
— Tacitus
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance…
— John Shelby Spong
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the…
— Aldous Huxley
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to…
— Rajneesh
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My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.
— Ian Woosnam
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
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