Top 35 Quotes About Davos
#1. Yet they require me to make them true, he thought. It had been a long time since Davos Seaworth felt so sad.
George R R Martin
#2. Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.
Bill Owens
#3. One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
George R R Martin
#4. My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.
Robert Scoble
#7. I own a shameless number of ethnic necklaces acquired at local markets in developing countries or inherited from my grandmother. These have seen me through meetings in Davos and visits to refugee camps.
Leila Janah
#8. The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
Bill Gates
#9. There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.
Timothy Noah
#10. I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter ... but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.
George R R Martin
#11. Davos had often heard it said that the wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel as common masons did, but worked stone with fire and magic as a potter might work clay.
George R R Martin
#12. Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.
Bill Gates
#13. The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.
Hubert Burda
#16. But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
Evan Davis
#17. Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.
Michio Kaku
#18. As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes.
Emil M. Cioran
#19. An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
George R R Martin
#20. How could she resist them eyes?
She tries, says Jack. Man, did she try.
Moira Young
#21. The galleys ... had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.
George R R Martin
#22. I did something so that others would do something. That is kingly
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. I choose to reinterpret my fears with a more loving perspective. #MiraclesNow
Gabrielle Bernstein
#24. Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.
George R R Martin
#25. Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?
Brad McKinniss
#26. How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?
Jenna Blum
#27. You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
William Shakespeare
#28. I stare at Hans.
Hans is shaped like an industrial-sized refrigerator.
His hands are like cinder blocks.
He should not be afraid of a little thing like the ocean.
Cyn Balog
#29. And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all.
George R R Martin
#30. The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.
Lisa See
#31. These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations
Samuel P. Huntington
#32. I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?
George R R Martin
#33. Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.
Lennox Lewis
#35. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
