Ed Martin Quotes

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.

The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

The things I do for love.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.