Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 2

So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—”“Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.”“I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.
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Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.
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So... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?"Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?
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Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
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Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!
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Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.
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Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.
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I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.
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It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
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What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.
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You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.
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The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
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The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
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Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
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Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
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I've always been very confident in my immaturity.
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Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
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Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p
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Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.
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I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.
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My other hand?' Lopen said. 'The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know, so you can prepare to be insulted.
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The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
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Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.
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Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.
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A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.
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Progress is learning to control your world.
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We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.
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You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.
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[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.
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Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.
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We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.
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Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
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Nice work," he said.I grinned."You look like hell, though," he noted."I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.
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My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.
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My life to yours. My breath become yours.
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Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.
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Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open."And he makes his stunning entry!" Kelsier announced, sweeping into the room, throwing back his mistcloak.Dockson snorted, shutting the doors. "You're truly a wonder to behold, Kell. Particularly the soot stains on your knees.
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Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.
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Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.
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Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.
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You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God.
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Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?""The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.
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That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
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You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.
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It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.
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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.
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So the gods,” Moash said, nursing his own drink, “were pleased that you solved problems on your own . . . by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?”“Hush,” Rock said. “Is good story.
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Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.
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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.
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All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
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Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
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I don't have much time for stories," Vin said."Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.
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Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.
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Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.
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You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.
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I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.
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