Robert Jordan Quotes - Page 2

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

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

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.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

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.

People are people, low or high.

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

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.

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

A woman's love can be violent.
Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.
Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

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.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

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.