Robert Jordan Quotes

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could beg...

Time to toss the dice

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the st...

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with impla...

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

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

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

You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.

Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man co...

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

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he...

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone wh...

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't t...

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "n...

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades t...

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

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

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly st...

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'...

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

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

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, y...

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, ...

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say...

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

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important par...

There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mi...

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

A man without trust might as well be dead.

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but aliv...

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have ...

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implica...

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

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

Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do ...

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

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Mua...

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

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you in...

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you ...

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lig...

Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a r...

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last...

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so might...

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of...

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

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

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

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dra...

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry ma...

Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be ...

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged...

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall u...

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to prete...

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

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

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

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly...

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and a...

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothin...

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven...

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the ...

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.-Robert Jordan(The ey...

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men for...

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our ...

They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for no...

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. T...

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

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and ma...

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

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not sa...

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

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perh...

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

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for...

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

A secret spoken finds wings.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made...

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you m...

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

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

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most impo...

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we li...

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will l...

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the...

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.