Wheel Of Time Quotes - Page 2

• Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

  Robert Jordan

  Girl, Brother, Kissing

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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

  Robert Jordan

  Pain, Alive, Sometimes

  "Crossroads of Twilight". Book by Robert Jordan, 2003.

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• 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

  Greatness, Men, Strings

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.253, Tor Books

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• Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

  Dean Koontz

  Family, Heart, Adversity

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

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Age, Senile

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

  Robert Jordan

  Book, Long, Enough

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.240, Macmillan

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

  Robert Jordan

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  "The Great Hunt". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

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• Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

  Robert Jordan

  Dragons, Lord, Wot

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• He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Light, Dragons

  Robert Jordan (2005). “New Spring: The Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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

  Robert Jordan

  War, Boys, Fool

  Robert Jordan (2002). “From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World”, p.49, Macmillan

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• My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Jobs, Wheels, Screws

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• Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

  Robert Jordan

  Forgiveness, Women, Thinking

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.549, Macmillan

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• Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

  Phil Cousineau

  Creativity, Journey, Soul

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.18, Conari Press

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• The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

  Robert Jordan

  Women, Eye, Mind

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• A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

  Robert Jordan

  Wise, Men, Faces

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Wot, Be A Man

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.251, Macmillan

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• No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
  That round and round still turns with onward might,
  Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
  Of an unknown hereafter.

  Charles Cowden Clarke

  Time, Night, Might

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• Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Frowning, Doe

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.646, Macmillan

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• 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 arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

  Robert Jordan

  Passion, People, Risk

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Towers of Midnight”, p.312, Macmillan

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• 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

  Robert Jordan

  Hunting, Trying, Lions

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.199, Macmillan

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• The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

  Robert Jordan

  Fall, Shadow, Age

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.692, Macmillan

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• The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Men, Wheels

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.370, Macmillan

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

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Littles, Stubbornness

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.257, Macmillan

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• The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Mass Destruction, Funeral, Black

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Dominion

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.64

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