Ser Barristan Quotes

#1. Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

George R R Martin

#2. Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit.

George R R Martin

#3. Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

George R R Martin

#4. Ser Barristan Selmy raised his pale blue from the table and said, 'Your Grace, ther is honor in facing an enemy on the battlefield, but none in killing him in his mother's womb. Forgive me, but I must stannd with Lord Eddard.

George R R Martin

#5. Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth.
Whatever he chose ...

George R R Martin

#6. Ser Barristan wrinkled up his nose, and said, Your Grace should not be here, breathing these black humors.

George R R Martin

#7. Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys

George R R Martin

#8. So I am a Socialist," said Ingleby, "but I can't stand this stuff about Old Dumbletonians. If everybody had the same State education, these things wouldn't happen." "If everybody had the same face," said Bredon, "there'd be no pretty women.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Brian Tracy

#10. Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.

Mona Simpson

#11. (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

Harold Bloom

#12. The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.

Adam Smith

#13. Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Ben Fountain

#14. I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

JoBeth Williams

#15. Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

Deborah Day