And yet many of us do it without families,” Nynaeve said. “Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk...

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

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

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.

The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

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

I’d run. But maybe you can’t run. Think of that, too.’ His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. ‘Sometimes you can’t run.

You’re welcome in my house when this is over. We’ll open a cask of Master al’Vere’s best brandy. We’ll remember those who fell, and we’ll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned...

Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.

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

A secret spoken finds wings.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

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.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of...

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

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

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin...

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

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

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

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?

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...

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

People are people, low or high.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor...

Often you don’t know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Two days’ hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

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

Lan shook his head sightly “He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.

You’re bloody insane, Karede,” Mat said. “Unfortunately, so am I.