Best Wheel of Time Quotes

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.

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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

- Robert Jordan -

Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm.

- Robert Jordan -

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.

- Robert Jordan -

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

- Robert Jordan -

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

- Robert Jordan -

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

- Robert Jordan -

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

- Robert Jordan -

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

- Robert Jordan -

Hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning. It just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

- Robert Jordan -

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become a legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

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A secret spoken finds wings.

- Robert Jordan -

A Secret spoken finds wings" The author means "Wings" as the disclosure/ sharing of confidential information about the patient to others intentionally or unintentionally. It means a breach of confidentiality.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

- 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 -

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.

- Robert Jordan -

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

- Robert Jordan -

All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle … That is what it means to be Green

- Robert Jordan -

Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in.

- Robert Jordan -

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

- Robert Jordan -

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

- Robert Jordan -

I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

- Robert Jordan -

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

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He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

- Robert Jordan -

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

- Robert Jordan -

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

- Robert Jordan -

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

- Robert Jordan -

Stories have power. Gleemen’s tales, and bards’ epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions and change the way men see the world.

- Robert Jordan -

I’ve seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

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