Dalinar Quotes

#1. If I should die," Dalinar said, "then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there."
"The Codes?"
"No. The Way of Kings."
"That storming book.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!"
"Working on it," she shouted back.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Adolin nodded curtly. He was still angry, Dalinar could see, but he chose to follow Dalinar - and part of following a leader was supporting him even when the battle turned against him.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Yes, from now on, Adolin would lead the battles. Dalinar would change the world.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. The cosmere, unfortunately, takes precedence over free food. Watch yourself, Dalinar. Life becomes dangerous, and you're at the center of it.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. That was why he'd come back. It was about Tien, it was about Dalinar, and it was about what was right - but most of all, it was about protecting people. This was the man he wanted to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it."
"God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong."
"Er. Yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. The kiss was yours, Dalinar,' she said idly, pulling open the door and entering his antechamber.
'You seduced me to it.'
'What? Seduced?' She glanced back at him. 'Dalinar, I've never been more open and honest in my life.'
'I know,' Dalinar said, smiling. 'That was the seductive part.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. How . . ." Dalinar said. "You fell into a chasm!"
"I fell face-first, sir," Kaladin said, "and fortunately, I'm particularly hard-headed.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Adolin was there in a heartbeat, attacking with more skill than any other man Dalinar had known. The lad was a genius with the Blade, an artist with paint of only one shade.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Dalinar forced himself to be calm. "Roion, we cannot continue to treat this war as a game."
"All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Exhaustion," Dalinar said, "pain, suffering. This is what victory usually feels

Brandon Sanderson

#13. A married philosopher is a comic character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. It can be nice and still be a prison." "I

Kim Stanley Robinson

#15. He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#17. Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Ruth Gordon

#18. A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Call no man happy before he dies.

Herodotus

#20. Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

Marie Windsor

#22. I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

Bernard Hinault

#23. He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms
when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow
he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

Jessica Hahn