Robert Jordan quotes - page 10

Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin." (Robert Jordan)
I'm no lord. I've more respect for myself than that. View quote
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Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices. View quote
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It is better to be the hammer than the nail. View quote
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The weak must be bold cautiously. View quote
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You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small. View quote
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The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing. View quote
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I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too. View quote
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Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death. View quote
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I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you've done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you. View quote
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Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I. (Robert Jordan)
Only the dead could afford oblivion. View quote
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Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing. View quote
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There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it. View quote
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I thought I could build, I was wrong. We are not builders, not you, or I, or the other one. We are destroyers. Destroyers. View quote
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The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead. View quote
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How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power. View quote
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A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides. View quote
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No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference. View quote
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It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line. View quote
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Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice. (Robert Jordan)
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know. View quote
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Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man. View quote
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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? View quote
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The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse. View quote
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