Robert Jordan Quotes

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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

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I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a... a... a man!

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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

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And she learned to guard her tongue better. I will wager she did. When we left them, she was still yelping and trying to get those scarlet puffers out of her dress. A scarlet puffer looks much like a red adder if your eye is dull like a wetlander's, but it is not poisonous. It does wriggle when confined, though.

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An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

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I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.

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I have made up my mind, young Tallanvor, and I do not expect you to question me when I have done so.

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Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

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I am the Dragon Reborn. Denying won't change it. Wishing won't change it. I'm not the man you knew back in Emond's Field. Do you understand now? Do you?

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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women.

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All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.

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The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing.

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Besides, you must remember the old saying. Let the lord of chaos rule.

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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

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I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

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The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

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Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

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Whatever you can do, Lews Therin, I can do. And better.

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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

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Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I'm not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If I pinch your bottom, you can slap my face, but until I do, I expect a civil word for a civil word!

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We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts And tore the world asunder.

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You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

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First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

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A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

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