'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.
Julia Gillard
PainWarPeopleSufferingGameLand
The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
Burt Shavitz
LifeMoneyMeMagicLivingLand
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
Nina Garcia
WaterGreenSmallWarmEarthLand
When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
Samuel Foote
LearningHouseLandGoneExcellent
We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.
Jason Blum
HappyWishLandI WishSuccessful
Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.
Bill Pullman
LiveMeGrowingLandAlwaysThings
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
DecisionRoadsGovernmentTaxLand
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
Richard Flanagan
FoodLandAncestorsStealingVan
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard
GodTimeManSongSayLand
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Jose Saramago
PlantSomeoneYouSayFlagLand
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
Alex Shoumatoff
ChangeClimate ChangeDoneLandDirt
Truth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
TruthTruth IsLand
As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.
Richard Ayoade
TimeDayThinkWishEvery DayLand
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
Pat Paulsen
BeautifulTimeStepLookLateLand
Labour and land are always politically sensitive.
Jose Angel Gurria
LandAlwaysSensitiveLabour
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
JusticePeopleLibertyAchieveLand
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
Johan Rockstrom
LossYouBecomeLandOverSee
I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.
Marie Helvin
LiveDaySpaceHawaiiI CanLand
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
Octavio Paz
PlantsTreesDieBornSoilLand
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
FamilyParentsRevolutionBornLand
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
William Bligh
TimeGlassesNightLandFirstSigns
The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.
Joel Silver
LoveThinkProblemYouMoviesLand
The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.
Moshe Kahlon
MomentMoneyEndMaking MoneyLand
The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
Naftali Bennett
YouKnowSayBuildLandOutside
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