Robert Jordan Quotes & Sayings

#1. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

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#2. There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

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#3. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Are we still friends? Can we be? Now?

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#6. You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.

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#7. And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

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

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#9. Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.

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#10. 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.

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#11. It was a thing of legends.

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

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#13. Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

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#14. Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

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#15. Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?

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#16. Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time

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

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#18. If wishes were wings, sheep would fly.

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#19. Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations,

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#20. Mat snorted. "I don't want to be any bloody hero.

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#21. A woman's love can be violent.
Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.
Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

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#25. When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

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#26. Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

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#27. If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

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#28. Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.

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#29. They will pay. I am the Lord of the Morning

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#30. Suddenly he grinned, but his grin was as dark as a scowl; his eyes sparkled merrily, laughing at the foot of the gallows.

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#31. 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.

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#32. The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

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#33. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.

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#34. No man should have another man's voice in his head.

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#35. Dance well with a woman, he thought smugly, and she's halfway yours.

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#36. How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

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

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

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#39. A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

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#40. about speaking up to Sitters, or

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#41. Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

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

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#43. What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Lews Therin laughed maniacally. It

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#44. Burn me," Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. "I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do it, just so I can tell the story.

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

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#46. It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

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

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

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#49. As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

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#50. To lead is neither to push or pull.

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#51. Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

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#52. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

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#53. You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

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#54. Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.

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#55. Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.

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#56. They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

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#57. Read and find out.

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#58. 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

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#59. 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.

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#60. To believe a thing is not to make it true.

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#61. 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.

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#62. P.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC
missive from Mat to Galad

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#63. Some can do things others cannot, Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.

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#64. In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

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#65. If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

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#66. 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.

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#67. That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.

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#68. You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.

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#69. I can rest when I'm dead.

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#70. Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

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#71. Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they'd understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.

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#72. But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman's head just because she had a smile on her face.

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#73. 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.

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#74. When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.

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#75. Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.

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

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#77. At least Aielwomen did not walk around with their noses in the air, or think you should jump just because they said so. Of course, some of their games were on the rough side, and they did have the habit of trying to kill you now and again.

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#78. 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.

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

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#80. 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

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#81. All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

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#82. These days, only the heat of anger gave him the strength to keep moving.

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#83. Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

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#84. It still isn't right for us to have flowers when there are people who do not have enough to eat.

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#85. Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that "everyone knew" deserved close examination. Being

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

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#87. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

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#88. Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.

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#89. I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!

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#90. Someone had to record this. He couldn't spend the entire time worrying about her. So, he searched his mind for the right words to describe what he was seeing. He set aside words like "epic" and "momentous." They were nearly worn out with overuse.

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#91. I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

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

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#93. The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.

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#94. 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.

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