#throne

Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #kane #kane-chronicles #romance #sadie

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#acts #almighty #alone #before #god

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. ↗

— Roland Allen

#allow #christ #consideration #duty #gospel

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #philosophy #point-of-view #love

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#build #long #sit #throne #you

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #ned-stark #varys #innocence

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#forget #god #heaven #i #just

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. It certainly broke mine. Lowborn, half-starved, unwashed... Yet lovely. They'd torn the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chase the men into the woods. By the time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to... Well, nowhere, really. The girl was too frightened to send her off by herself, though, so I offered to take her to the closest inn and feed her while my brother rode back to the Rock for help. She was hungrier than I would have believed. We finished two whole chickens and part of a third, and drank a flagon of wine, talking. I was only thirteen, and the wine went to my head, I fear. The next thing I knew, I was sharing her bed. If she was shy, I was shyer. I'll never know where I found the courage. When I broke her maidenhead, she wept, but afterward she kissed me and sang her little song, and by morning I was in love. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #tyrion-lannister #winter-is-coming #courage

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#food-for-thought #god #individual #instruction #israelmore-ayivor