Explore Quotes by Robert Jordan

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

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

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.

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.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

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.

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

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.