Robert Jordan
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.Collection: Forever
Never gamble without knowing a back way out.Collection: Knowing
Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.Collection: Men
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.Collection: Enemy
Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin AybaraCollection: Care
A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.Collection: Eye
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.Collection: Loyalty
the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always loosesCollection: Fighting
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.Collection: Cat
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.Collection: Lying
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.Collection: Facts
A man without trust is a man without life.Collection: Life
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.Collection: Believe
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?Collection: Book
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.Collection: Regret
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.Collection: Women
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.Collection: Memories
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.Collection: Swimming
Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.Collection: Children
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.Collection: Wise
Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat CauthonCollection: Yesterday
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.Collection: Land
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.Collection: Long
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.Collection: Faces
What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.Collection: Want
She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.Collection: Want
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.Collection: Reading
Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.Collection: Running
You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.Collection: Simple
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.Collection: Men
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.Collection: Fighting
Take what you want, and pay for it.Collection: Want
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.Collection: Queens
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.Collection: Pieces
The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.Collection: Spring
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 EgweneCollection: Jobs
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.Collection: Fall
I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.Collection: Thinking
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?Collection: Hands
She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.Collection: Lost Love
A man should never give promises in bed.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Men
Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.Collection: Memories
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.Collection: Men
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.Collection: Order
Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.Collection: Disease
I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.Collection: Men
We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.Collection: Eye
Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.Collection: Alive