#lash

He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. "Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled." (Tyrion). The squire's eyes were cloudy with sleep. "Horses". (squire) "Those big brown animals that love apples, I'm sure you've seen them. Four legs and a tail. But Bronn first." (Tyrion) ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george #humor #tyrion-lannister #love

Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. ↗

— Gerard Way

#inspirational #life #living #watching #inspirational

it is real, all of it, he thought, the wars, the intrigues, the great bloody game, and me in the center of it... me, the dwarf, the monster, the one they scorned and laughed at, but now i hold it all, the power, the city, the girl. this was what i was made for, and gods forgive me, but i do love it... and her. and her." (tyrion lannister) ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#forgiveness

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real. ↗

— Summer Altice

#best #cameras #down-to-earth #flashing #flashing lights

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#creativity #force #labor #lash #may

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. ↗

— Arrian

#arrows #astounded #attacked #charge #flash

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. ↗

— Nikolai Berdyaev

#burns #clash #pure #tragic #truth

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#dressing #flashy #glitzy #good #i

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#darkness #else #everything #flash #gone