I am rather exceptional in that regard.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours.”Ranette: “Your mansion isn’t safe?”Wax: “My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off...

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.–Egwene al’Vere

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world...

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.”You’re like a potato!” I shouted after her. “In a minefield.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don’t depend on me too much. I mean that. I’m not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the...

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?””I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation,” he said.”She is a heretic.””She refused to join any of the...

Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in...

[Deserters], they’ve given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you’ve already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

This is a lot more satisfying,” he said, “when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity.”The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw,...

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its...

Elend, my dearest Elend who brings a pile of books to each ball he attends and ignores everybody in favour of having a nice read. Elend who has to grow up rather suddenly in the...

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Oh my lovely princess,”Raoden whispered. “You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them.”-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

How’s that a duel?””He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon’ everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about.”Teft laughed. “Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

Ruin still used Reen’s voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else,...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I’ve discarded a belief in right and wrong.””But the Almighty determines what is right!””Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is...

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

I don’t care if secretly, you think we’ll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance if you have to. If the end...

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with...

People with passion are people who will destroy – for a man’s passion is not true until he proves how much he’s willing to sacrifice for it.

I don’t suppose you’d want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I’m not really sure what that means, to be honest. I’ll just trust you to decide.

Thank you?” the king said, drowsy.

You’re a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.””Nonsense,” he said. “You just have to promise me that I won’t have to do a thing, and then I’ll do anything you want.””Anything?””Anything that doesn’t require...

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers...

You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

What is belief – what is faith – if you don’t continue it after failure?

I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Poor boy.

I’ve always been very confident in my immaturity.

Does the king know you’re back?””Nope! I’m trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence.””That sounds… hard.””Yeah, the storming...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

… reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?

What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she’d picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she’d snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn’t change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Kaladin walked, feeling numb. He’d thought that there was nothing more life could do to him, nothing worse than the slave’s brand with a shash, nothing worse than losing all he had to the war,...

we’re all freaks sometimes, Melody,” he replied. “You’re just… well, better at it than most.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It’s really funny.

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting...