Tonya B. > Tonya B. 's Quotes

“1. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
2. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
3. A wise man does not make demands of kings.
4. A mind needs a book as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep it's edge.
5. People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
6. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
7. I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
8. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
9. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
10. Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
11. In battle a Captain's lungs are as important as his sword arm. I does not matter how brave or brilliant the man is if his commands can't be heard.
12. A man is never so vulnerable in battle as when he flees.
13. Gold has it's uses, but wars are won with iron.
14. The man who fears losing has already lost.
15. Words are wind.
16. The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
17. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different.
18. Give gold to a foe and he will just come back for more.
19. In this world only winter is certain.
20. The gods have no mercy. That's why they're gods.
21. I have learned that the contents of a man's letters are more valuable than the contents of his wallet”
― George RR Martin

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein