#robb

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff. ↗

— Ally Carter

#hale #robbery #men

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #george-r-r-martin #robb-stark #winter-is-coming #winterfell

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#dreams #escape #religion #suspense #throbbing-gristle

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#stealing #theft #shakespeare

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. ↗

— Anthony Robbins

#anthony-robbins #fear #grateful #gratitude #gratitude

Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#tom-robbins #mysticism

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #humor #j-d-robb #roarke #death

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#because #could #diesel #drive #guy

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#compared #founding #robbing

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#arguing #bank #bank robbery #cab #four