Top 100 Quotes About Eddings
#1. Only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
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#2. Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
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#4. You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll throw up again.
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#5. Let's kill the big one with the red whiskers then," another suggested. "He looks like he might be troublesome, and he's probably too stupid to know anything useful."
"I want that one," Barak whispered.
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#6. All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
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#7. I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.
I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
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#8. As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
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#9. Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.
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#10. Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
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#11. I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
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#12. As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
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#13. Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.
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#14. You're a cynic," Urgit accused.
Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
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#15. Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.
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#16. As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig
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#17. We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don't have to carry that threat out too often.
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#18. We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running
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#19. The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.
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#20. As they prepared to mount, Barak's horse, a large, sturdy gray, sighed and threw a reproachful look at Hettar, and the Algar chuckled.
'What's so funny?' Barak demanded suspiciously.
'The horse said something,' Hettar replied. 'Never mind.
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#21. Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him.
"You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he said. "You're starting to get delicate."
"How would you like to have me gut you?" she offered.
"That's my girl.
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#22. Degrur, that doesn't make any sense at all." "I just woke up,
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#23. Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however."
"My apologies to your horse.
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#24. Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
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#25. Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.
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#27. Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
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#28. That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight."
"God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.
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#29. Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.
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#30. Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.
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#31. The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.
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#32. All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.
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#33. Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.
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#34. Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they're alive.
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#35. Wise are you, indeed ... to know what is not possible ...
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#36. In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.
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#37. I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.
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#38. It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best.
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#39. Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.
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#40. Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
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#41. We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.
Beldin
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#42. Garion drew in a deep breath. "Or," he continued, "I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him."
Silk whistled, his eyes widening.
"He said that I didn't have to go alone," Garion added hopefully. "I asked him about that."
"Thanks," Belgarath said dryly.
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#43. I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before."
"You're a fortunate man," Wolf said.
"She's a great beauty," the man said admiringly.
"And has a temper to match," Wolf told him.
"I noticed that," the guard said.
"We noticed you noticing," Silk told him slyly.
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#44. Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have.
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#45. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.
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#46. I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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#47. We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.
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#48. But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.
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#49. Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.
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#50. No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.
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#51. Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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#52. Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.
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#53. Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.
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#54. Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be.
"Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked.
" ... You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
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#55. A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.
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#56. I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
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#57. I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
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#58. Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
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#59. Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked.
"Not if I can avoid it, no.
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#60. It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
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#61. What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra.
"First you ought to go wash your face," Polgara told her. "Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it.
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#62. You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
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#64. He's nearly a man," Faldor explained to Aunt Pol, "and a man always has need of a good knife.
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#65. I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language."
"Thank you," he said, "I think.
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#66. Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.
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#67. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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#68. A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
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#69. I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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#70. The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.
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#71. I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."
"That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."
"You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that?"
"Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do.
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#72. I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia
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#73. Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. "They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara," she complained. "They're sitting one them." "You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear." "Won't that make them angry?" "Are you afraid of a chicken?
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#74. He can come up with the most exotic things I've ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.
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#75. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
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#76. When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
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#78. We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.
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#79. When father uses the word 'politics' he's talking
about relations between nations. When I use the word, though, I'm
talking about the various subtle ways a woman can get men to do
what she wants them to do.
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#80. You're impossible," she told him.
"Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.
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#81. For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.
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#82. Most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.
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#83. Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.
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#84. Watch out for snakes,' Durnik called after him.
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#85. Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?
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#86. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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#87. If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.
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#88. The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no."
"Why?" Beldin asked bluntly.
"We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?
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#90. That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
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#91. Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[ ... ]
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#92. Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there's no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?
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#93. The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
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#94. And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious.
'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.
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#95. Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
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#96. The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.
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#97. Your
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intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.
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#98. But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
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#99. Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
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#100. You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.
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