Robert Jordan Quotes

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

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

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

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

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

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.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

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

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

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

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.