Often you don’t know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
One more dance along the razor’s edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear’s mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn’t die?
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
Who knows a woman’s heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
The only rules he wanted to remember were “never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars” and “never gamble without knowning a back way out
I’m not a clever man, but I’m willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don’t try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don’t like that Master Balwer.
I’d run. But maybe you can’t run. Think of that, too.’ His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. ‘Sometimes you can’t run.
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.
If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.
Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.” “That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.
It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. “He does not look so mighty lying there,” he said wonderingly. “He does not look so much greater than me.
Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.
That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?
Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.
Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
You’re bloody insane, Karede,” Mat said. “Unfortunately, so am I.
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement
Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.
Bloody ashes, woman. This isn’t a metaphor for anything! It’s just boots.
The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.
What you practice too often, you use without thinking.
I’ve seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.
Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.