“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“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”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“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, quote from The Eye of the World
“Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its
foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make
the stones weep.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“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.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“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, quote from The Eye of the World
“The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Remember the flame, lad, and the void.” It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“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.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“And the Shadow fell upon the land, and the world was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. 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.
And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the prophecies, as he was in ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
“Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
Born place: in Charleston, South Carolina, The United States
Born date October 17, 1948
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“While researching this answer, I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got my IP address banned from Wolfram|Alpha for making too many requests. The ban-appeal form asked me to explain what task I was performing that necessitated so many queries. I wrote, “Calculating how many rental helium tanks you’d have to carry with you in order to inflate a balloon large enough to act as a parachute and slow your fall from a jet aircraft.” Sorry, Wolfram.”
― Randall Munroe, quote from What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“Quillonians were a reclusive race, proud, prone to drama, and violent when cornered. A couple of them had stayed at my parents’ inn, and as long as everything went their way, they were perfectly cordial, but the moment any small problem appeared, they would start putting exclamation marks at the end of all their sentences. My mother didn’t like dealing with them. She was very practical. If you brought a problem to her, she’d take it apart and figure out how best to resolve it. From what I remembered, Quillonians didn’t always want their problems resolved. They wanted a chance to shake their clawed fists at the sky, invoke their gods, and act as if the world was ending.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Sweep in Peace
“To see something marvellous with your own eyes - that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you’ll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold an incomplete half of it, and that it won’t ever really exist as a whole until you’re together, talking or thinking about that moment ... that’s worth more than one plus one. It’s worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can’t even imagine it.”
― Alastair Reynolds, quote from House of Suns
“It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Triple Zero
“I might be a snob, but at least I’m not a hypocrite, still coasting around because I have nothing to do now that my life’s dream to fuck and breed for Che Guevara blew up in my face. Nor am I hanging out with rich people in West Kings House who now don’t wash their hair and calling themselves I-man to upset their parents, when everybody knows in two years they’re going right back to their father’s shipping company to take it over, and marry whichever Syrian bitch just win Miss Jamaica.”
― Marlon James, quote from A Brief History of Seven Killings
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