Top 100 Goodkind Terry Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Goodkind Terry

#1. Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character. ========== Naked Empire (Goodkind, Terry)

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

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

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#4. It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.

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

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#6. Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

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

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#8. The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle.

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#9. Superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.

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#10. We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack

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

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

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#13. This is the Sword of Truth.

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#14. Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

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#15. It wasn't that cold
she'd thought to let the embers do for the night
but she felt the sudden need for the comfort of a fire, the assurance of its light.

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#16. Magic intensifies and concentrates passions, strengthening not only joy, but ruinous passions as well, and in this way they may become obsessions, and unbearable unless released. -Joseph Anders

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#17. Richard clenched the strip in his fist. It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

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#18. The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

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#19. But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life.

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#20. You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble.

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#21. Please meet Magda Searus, the first Confessor.

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#22. That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.

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#23. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

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#24. Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

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#25. The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

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#26. 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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#27. Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

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#28. Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.

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#29. To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.

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#30. Think of the solution, not the problem

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#31. She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.

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#32. Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon.

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#33. 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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#34. But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

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#35. I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

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#36. She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

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#37. This was why he couldn't let Richard know it was the chimes themselves that were loose. Richard would not have accepted what Zedd intended, what Zedd knew he must do.

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#38. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

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#39. 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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#40. The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

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#41. Of course, disinformation," Quinn said. "I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.

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

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#44. 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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#45. Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors.

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#46. I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

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

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#48. Information is the coin of war.

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#49. History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

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

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#51. Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

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#52. After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

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#53. Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.

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#54. 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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#55. Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

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#56. It's so good to see you," she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul.

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#57. When the son, a lanky young man, saw Kahlan, he fell instantly and hopelessly in love. Richard understood the feeling; nonetheless, he didn't appreciate it.

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

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

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#60. Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

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

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#62. Only those you trust can betray you.

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#63. Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.

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#64. Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.

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#65. Back in his head. His entire body began to tremble. The Sister murmured thick words that had no meaning to Dalton. Each, as it oozed forth, seemed to take root in Rowley. The young man's arms flinched when

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#66. Desperately, his mind raced as he cried, trying to make time go backward, to do it again differently, to ignore the voices, to keep hold of her hand, to save her.

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#67. The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.

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#68. Winter was coming; the

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#69. I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

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#70. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

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#71. I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!

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#72. Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

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#73. Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

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#74. The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true ... or being afraid it is.

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

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#76. Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

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#77. The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play. - Zedd

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#78. How do you know who I am?'
Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

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

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#80. When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

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#81. The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

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#82. 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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#83. Really? A Confession flower. Why would it be called that? Because a confession is a revelation of the truth. Truth is pure. White is pure. Thus the name.

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#84. I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

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#85. Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. My heart belongs to someone.

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#86. It doesn't require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what's right before your eyes. Use your head." Beata

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#87. Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

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#88. He had created a solution where it had never before existed, or even been imagined.

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#89. She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.

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#90. 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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#91. Back to sleep, my babies," she said in a soothing voice. "Pa just went to the privy. I'm only taking him a light to see his way back. You know how your pa stumbles his toes in the night and then curses us for it. Back to sleep, the both of you. Everything is all right. Just takin' your pa a lamp.

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

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#93. But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

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