"Some men want ***** on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward."

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George R. R. Martin

#Men Quotes #Battle Quotes #Want Quotes

“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what they do.. I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside, or worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.”
“On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!”

Source : "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.
“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”
“I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.”
“I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”
“And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.”
“Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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