Quotes About Aes

#1. Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

Robert Jordan

#2. Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.

Robert Jordan

#3. We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.

Robert Jordan

#4. To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Robert Jordan

#5. 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.

Robert Jordan

#6. Those clouds above formed a pattern that looked familiar. Black on white, white on black.
It's the symbol, she realized with a start. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai.
Under this sign ... shall he conquer.

Robert Jordan

#7. Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.

Robert Jordan

#8. Are you sure you want to come, Mat?" Rand asked.
Mat shrugged and affected a grin, not a very confident one. "Who could pass up a chance to see bloody Rhuidean?" Egwene raised her eyebrows at him. "Oh, pardon my language, Aes Sedai. I've heard you say as bad, and for less cause, I'll wager.

Robert Jordan

#9. Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.

Robert Jordan

#10. Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Robert Jordan

#11. There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Robert Jordan

#12. The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Robert Jordan

#13. The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.

Diane Chamberlain

#14. O gods, If any gods will listen, I deserve Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me Both life and death!
-- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree

Ovid

#15. I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#17. But after a while, you know, I find it better to face in one direction, in front of you, just let the past lay and get on with it,

James Patterson

#18. I wish you could feel that for me now.

Elizabeth Finn

#19. People are people, low or high.

Robert Jordan

#20. There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.

Tiffany Reisz

#21. Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Robert Jordan

#23. Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear."
"Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined.

A.C. Gaughen

#24. Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

Ann Coulter

#25. Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)

Sarah Addison Allen