Robert Jordan Quotes

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I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.

Robert Jordan
The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

Robert Jordan
One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.

Robert Jordan
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Robert Jordan
Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?

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A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man's heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky.

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If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

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We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns....

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You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.

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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

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Mourn if you must. But mourn on the march to Tarmon Gai'don.

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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

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He recalled countering Sammael's last move with something particulary nasty, but he could not pull the memory to the surface. Not balefire. "Mustn't use that. Threatens the fabric of the Pattern. Not even for Ilyena? I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."'

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When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.

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I am going to defeat them, Taim. All of them. They think they can tear everything down. It's always tearing down, never building up! I'm going to build something, leave something behind. Whatever happens, I will do that! I'll defeat the Dark One. And cleanse saidin, so men don't have to fear going mad, and the world doesn't have to fear men channeling. I'll...

Robert Jordan
What happened with the pond? Surely the water is the point of the story.

Robert Jordan
There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."

Robert Jordan
Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

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Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

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We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.

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[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it.

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A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight.

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The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

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If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

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A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

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