Top quotes by Robert Jordan

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor. Votes: 16

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live. Votes: 9

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. Votes: 8

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles. Votes: 8

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through. Votes: 7

The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. Votes: 7

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance. Votes: 6

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush. Votes: 6

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. Votes: 6

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy. Votes: 6

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me. Votes: 6

Time to toss the dice Votes: 5

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. Votes: 5

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. Votes: 5

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest. Votes: 5

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. Votes: 4

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. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age" Votes: 4

All of you, fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand." Votes: 4

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home." Votes: 4

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. Votes: 3

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm. Votes: 3

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose. Votes: 3

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes Votes: 2

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying Votes: 2

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind. Votes: 2

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three. Votes: 2

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Votes: 2

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. Votes: 1

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made. Votes: 1

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings. Votes: 1

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress Votes: 0

If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead. Votes: 0

It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who. Votes: 0

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death. Votes: 0

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. Votes: 0

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend. Votes: 0

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile. Votes: 0

Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe. Votes: 0

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. Votes: 0

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. Votes: 0

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is. Votes: 0

May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon Votes: 0

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills. Votes: 0

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder. Votes: 0

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain! Votes: 0

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Votes: 0

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon. Votes: 0

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile. Votes: 0

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out Votes: 0

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer. Votes: 0

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run. Votes: 0

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast. Votes: 0

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway. Votes: 0

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene Votes: 0

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Votes: 0

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Votes: 0

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. Votes: 0

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. Votes: 0

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life? Votes: 0

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know. Votes: 0

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when. Votes: 0

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. Votes: 0

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run. Votes: 0

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind. Votes: 0

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them. Votes: 0

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back. Votes: 0

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. Votes: 0

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. Votes: 0

As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope. Votes: 0

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon Votes: 0

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne Votes: 0

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. Votes: 0

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable. Votes: 0

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time) Votes: 0

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. Votes: 0

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat. Votes: 0

Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path. Votes: 0

A man without trust is a man without life. Votes: 0

There are things worth fighting for. Votes: 0

Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent. Votes: 0

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight Votes: 0

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing. Votes: 0

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first. Votes: 0

A man can get killed in there. Votes: 0

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty. Votes: 0

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her. Votes: 0

A man should never give promises in bed. Votes: 0

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. Votes: 0

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man. Votes: 0

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know. Votes: 0

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense. Votes: 0

A pig painted gold is still a pig. Votes: 0

A secret spoken finds wings. Votes: 0

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey. Votes: 0

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair Votes: 0

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers. Votes: 0

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom. Votes: 0

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you. Votes: 0

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife. Votes: 0

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive. Votes: 0

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene Votes: 0

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon Votes: 0

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose. Votes: 0

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones. Votes: 0

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. Votes: 0

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you. Votes: 0

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve. Votes: 0

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age Votes: 0

Any day you wake up, maybe you die. Votes: 0

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me. Votes: 0

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. Votes: 0

Beauty holds more worth than gold. Votes: 0

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze. Votes: 0

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build. Votes: 0

Better ten days of love than years of regretting. Votes: 0

Better to face the bear than run from it. Votes: 0

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men. Votes: 0

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Votes: 0

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. Votes: 0

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna Votes: 0

But it was an ending. Votes: 0

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. Votes: 0

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat Votes: 0

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara Votes: 0

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often. Votes: 0

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten. Votes: 0

Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked. Votes: 0

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself. Votes: 0

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours. Votes: 0

Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything. Votes: 0

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes. Votes: 0

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been. Votes: 0

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. Votes: 0

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die? Votes: 0

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. Votes: 0

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. Votes: 0

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier. Votes: 0

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be. Votes: 0

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon. Votes: 0

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep. Votes: 0

Hardness shatters; strength endures. Votes: 0

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat Votes: 0

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age. Votes: 0

He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat. Votes: 0

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun! Votes: 0

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. Votes: 0

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. Votes: 0

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same. Votes: 0

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change. Votes: 0

I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber. Votes: 0

I can rest when I'm dead. Votes: 0

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. Votes: 0

I do not like odd things until I can understand them. Votes: 0

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement Votes: 0

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy. Votes: 0

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute. Votes: 0

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon. Votes: 0

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard. Votes: 0

I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-... Votes: 0

I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool. Votes: 0

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it. Votes: 0

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow. Votes: 0

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended. Votes: 0

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed Votes: 0

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly. Votes: 0

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly. Votes: 0

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another. Votes: 0

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool. Votes: 0

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good. Votes: 0

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you. Votes: 0

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. Votes: 0

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai. Votes: 0

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be. Votes: 0

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so. Votes: 0

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different. Votes: 0

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that. Votes: 0

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa --- Votes: 0

It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you. Votes: 0

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection. Votes: 0

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down. Votes: 0

It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done. Votes: 0

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. Votes: 0

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff. Votes: 0

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full. Votes: 0

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice. Votes: 0

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time. Votes: 0

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man! Votes: 0

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance. Votes: 0

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt. Votes: 0

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. Votes: 0

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not? Votes: 0

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home. Votes: 0

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result. Votes: 0

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves. Votes: 0

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now. Votes: 0

Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead. Votes: 0

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do. Votes: 0

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter. Votes: 0

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne Votes: 0

Never gamble without knowing a back way out. Votes: 0

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever. Votes: 0

No man should have another man's voice in his head. Votes: 0

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand Votes: 0

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. Votes: 0

On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever. Votes: 0

Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again. Votes: 0

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots. Votes: 0

Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon. Votes: 0

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died. Votes: 0

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both. Votes: 0

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. Votes: 0

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me. Votes: 0

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it. Votes: 0

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man! Votes: 0

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered. Votes: 0

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent. Votes: 0

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die. Votes: 0

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can. Votes: 0

Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident. Votes: 0

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love. Votes: 0

She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want. Votes: 0

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini Votes: 0

Some men ["¦] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him. Votes: 0

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess Votes: 0

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot. Votes: 0

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive. Votes: 0

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble. Votes: 0

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then. Votes: 0

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? Votes: 0

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long. Votes: 0

Take what you want, and pay for it. Votes: 0

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. Votes: 0

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards. Votes: 0

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute. Votes: 0

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually. Votes: 0

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie. Votes: 0

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you. Votes: 0

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain Votes: 0

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again. Votes: 0

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind. Votes: 0

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying. Votes: 0

The fox often offers the duck its pond. Votes: 0

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths. Votes: 0

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. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age Votes: 0

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones. Votes: 0

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least. Votes: 0

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps. Votes: 0

The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are. Votes: 0

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death. Votes: 0

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end. Votes: 0

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business. Votes: 0

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. Votes: 0

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it. Votes: 0

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity. Votes: 0

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. Votes: 0

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills Votes: 0

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor Votes: 0

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses Votes: 0

The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you. Votes: 0

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness. Votes: 0

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. Votes: 0

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O' the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O' the Shadows. Votes: 0

There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them. Votes: 0

There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made. Votes: 0

These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people. Votes: 0

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it. Votes: 0

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day. Votes: 0

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done. Votes: 0

To lead is neither to push or pull. Votes: 0

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything. Votes: 0

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost? Votes: 0

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads. Votes: 0

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit. Votes: 0

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. Votes: 0

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right. Votes: 0

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. Votes: 0

We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice. Votes: 0

What can't be changed must be endured. Votes: 0

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love. Votes: 0

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads. Votes: 0

What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn? Votes: 0

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Votes: 0

Whatever can be done, can be undone. Votes: 0

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back. Votes: 0

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there. Votes: 0

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while... Votes: 0

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough. Votes: 0

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses. Votes: 0

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater. Votes: 0

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others. Votes: 0

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. Votes: 0

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh. Votes: 0

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts. Votes: 0

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care. Votes: 0

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm. Votes: 0

You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve Votes: 0

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. Votes: 0

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone. Votes: 0

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man. Votes: 0

You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat. Votes: 0

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen. Votes: 0

You must surrender before you can guide. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You read too much and understand too little. Votes: 0

You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming? Votes: 0

You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me. Votes: 0

You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to Mat Votes: 0

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. Votes: 0

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man. Votes: 0

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more. Votes: 0