Robert Jordan Quotes - Page 2

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

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

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.

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.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Take what you want, and pay for it.

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

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

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

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

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.

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.

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.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

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

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