"I wonder what the High Septon would have……" — George R. R. Martin
"I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?"
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
— Arthur Koestler
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
— Aristophanes
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
— Margaret Mahy
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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
— Russell Shorto
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and…
— Edward Abbey
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or…
— Rajneesh
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when…
— Fisher Ames
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There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or…
— Jay Lake
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