Terry Goodkind Quotes & Sayings

#1. The power of Orden predates the star shift.

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#2. And that you are equally faithful to her.

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#3. I love her too much to keep her from leaving,

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#4. I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

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#5. There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

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#6. Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard

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#7. We all make mistakes.
The people who love us forgive the mistakes.
The people who won't forgive don't really matter

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#8. When you hear the word 'tyranny of magic' as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don't be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.

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#9. You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.
-Kahlan Amnell

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#10. She shook her head with a sigh. "You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed." She

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#11. You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

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#12. We all have to die, Johnrock - every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

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#13. Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance.

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#14. The Spiritist is said to be a dangerous woman.

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#15. You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.

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#16. Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

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#17. Her life was hers to live by right. She belonged to no one.

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#18. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.

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#19. Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

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#20. Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn't want to give it up without a very good reason.

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#21. Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.

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#22. Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

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#23. Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes.

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#24. His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.

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#25. Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality ... through faith.

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#26. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

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#27. I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

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#28. If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs ... Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

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#29. Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

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#30. I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

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#31. Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I'm finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.

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#32. There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

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#33. Cutting people. Those women were

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#34. When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.

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#35. As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

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#36. She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde - by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.

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#37. Don't try to fix the past, dear one - it can't be done.

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#38. You'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them.

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#39. Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

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#40. This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

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#41. Fate does not seek our consent.

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#42. You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is.

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#43. It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

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#44. To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

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#45. Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

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#46. While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.

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#47. Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

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#48. Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

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#49. There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.

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#50. You can't help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can't talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try.

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#51. Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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#52. The power needs truth to work. Truth is reality, the laws of nature. They're inseparable. That relationship is represented by the word woven into the hilt. That makes this sword meant to serve more than just the power. It is also meant to serve the truth. This is the Sword of Truth.

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#53. You can't reason with a nightmare

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#54. He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

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#55. Nothing is ever easy.

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#56. The truth has value.

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#57. Your destiny is to find the truth.

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#58. Wishing gets people killed," he often said. "Using your head gets you home.

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#59. We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

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#60. Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people.

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#61. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

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#62. Dalton tugged at his clothes, straightening them. "Is that so." "But the female will cheat on the male. Sometimes, while he is out collecting twigs for their nest, she will let another male take her.

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#63. The cannon of the spirits says that intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carryout the intent does not absolve the guilt. ~ Cara Mordsith

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#64. If you regain your senses, come see me, I will teach you how. - Cara

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#65. Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

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#66. Magda smiled. I'm familiar with strange objects left in corners. My husband was a maker, though I rarely heard that name applied to him.

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#67. Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.

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#68. Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule
The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

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#69. Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either," Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.

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#70. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

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#71. How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.

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#72. Kahlan sighed impatiently. "Richard, you promised Zedd we would go to Aydindril." "I did. But I didn't promise him when.

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#73. It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man
what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

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#74. Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

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#75. all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.

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#76. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

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#77. The dead must heed them.

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#78. If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.

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#79. The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.

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#80. If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.

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#81. Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

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#82. Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd.

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#83. There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

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#84. They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

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#85. Wizard's Sixth Rule
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

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#86. Wizard's Eighth Rule
Talga Vassternich.
(Deserve Victory)

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#87. Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

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#88. stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.

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#89. Kahlan ambled toward the door. "Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine." She slowed as she passed Raina. "I think Raina's hands would fit mine better.

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#90. Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought.

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#91. Zedd planted his fists on his hips and turned a look on Cara. "Now Mord-Sith have become experts in magic. What next?" "A talking machine," Nicci said.

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#92. Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

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#93. Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl

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#94. Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

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#95. To love another, you must first love yourself. Love yourself, Magda, so you can love him. Love yourself enough to let your memories of me ease away from closing your heart. Love yourself enough to know that you deserve happiness. - Barracus

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