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One Quotes by Robert Jordan
- The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
- I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same…
- As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no…
- 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…
- My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man…
- Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
- There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
- One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
- From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have…
- Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so…
- All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the…
- If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
- A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
- Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was…
- Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The…
- The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not…
- 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,…
- Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his…
- 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.
- 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.…
- You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword…
- 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…
- Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except…
- Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
- 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.
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