Robert Jordan Quotes - Page 2

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
Robert Jordan
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
Robert Jordan
What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.”“Ila was giving me advice on being a woman,” Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”“That,” Egwene said, “is probably why you make such a bad job of it.
Robert Jordan
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
Robert Jordan
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
Robert Jordan
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Robert Jordan
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
Robert Jordan
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
Robert Jordan
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Robert Jordan
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Robert Jordan
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
Robert Jordan
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?
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There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.
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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.
Robert Jordan
Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.
Robert Jordan
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
Robert Jordan
You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.
Robert Jordan
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
Robert Jordan
Time to toss the dice
Robert Jordan
One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Robert Jordan
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.
Robert Jordan
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Robert Jordan
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Robert Jordan
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. 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.
Robert Jordan