"I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one."

--

George R. R. Martin

#Winning Quotes #Thrones Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.”
“Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It becomes a confusing, emotional mess and we wonder why God isn't giving us more direction, when all the while He is there waiting to be allowed back into first place in our hearts. Only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.”
“A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.”
“I would always wear basketball jerseys and have my hair in a ponytail.”
“Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.”
“Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.”
“The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 8, 1930.
“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

Source : Herb Caen, Irene Mecchi (1992). “Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991”, Chronicle Books Llc

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