Quotes by Robert Jordan

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a...”

“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 began to m...”

“A secret spoken finds wings.”

“He hadnt asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a...”

“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 then.”

“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.”

“Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.”

“Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image t...”

“Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he sea...”

“He was swimming in a sea of other peoples expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

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

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

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”

“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.”

“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when hes nothing to lose.”

“Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”

“Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.”

“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 black...”