A Quote by George R. R. Martin

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

George R. R. Martin

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George R. R. Martin
American - Novelist
Born: September 20, 1948

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Samuel Johnson

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

Geoffrey Zakarian

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

Catherine Fisher

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

Nicholas Sparks

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Janette Rallison

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

Ovid

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

Judith Barrington

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

Lauren DeStefano

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

Rob Sheffield

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

Carol Plum-Ucci

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

Harlan Coben

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

Immanuel Kant

Finding the one right candidate in a group is hard, and companies don't have much time to figure out exactly which questions can help them tell similar-seeming candidates apart.

Maria Konnikova

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