Robert Jordan Quotes
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501. “A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf’s eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”

— Robert Jordan

502. “We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.”

— Robert Jordan

503. “A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.”

— Robert Jordan

504. “A man doesn’t choose to be an idiot, but he does choose to be loyal.”

— Robert Jordan

505. “Greed nibbled every man, and strict “rules” could be bent if opportunity walked past and winked suggestively enough. Mat.”

— Robert Jordan

506. “When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”

— Robert Jordan

507. “I am Rand al’Thor!” he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. “I am the Dragon Reborn!”

— Robert Jordan

508. “Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

— Robert Jordan

509. “Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.”

— Robert Jordan

510. “Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.”

— Robert Jordan

511. “A man without trust is a man without life.”

— Robert Jordan

512. “I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

— Robert Jordan

513. “The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”

— Robert Jordan

514. “But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman’s head just because she had a smile on her face.”

— Robert Jordan

515. “Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.”

— Robert Jordan

516. “A man’s dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”

— Robert Jordan

517. “The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.”

— Robert Jordan

518. “We are dead men, Lews Therin murmured. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.”

— Robert Jordan

519. “Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.”

— Robert Jordan

520. “Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.”

— Robert Jordan

521. “All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.”

— Robert Jordan

522. “Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad. Even if it’s something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. ‘Better ten days of love than years of regretting,’ ” she quoted.”

— Robert Jordan

523. “But it was an ending.”

— Robert Jordan

524. “Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”

— Robert Jordan

525. “Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.”

— Robert Jordan

526. “Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.”

— Robert Jordan

527. “Light’s truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.”

— Robert Jordan

528. “If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”

— Robert Jordan

529. “It left a feeling of something not done.”

— Robert Jordan

530. “We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That’s Aviendha. Don’t look at her crosswise, or she’ll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”

— Robert Jordan

531. “And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.”

— Robert Jordan

532. “If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”

— Robert Jordan

533. “It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”

— Robert Jordan

534. “A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

— Robert Jordan

535. “To lead is neither to push or pull.”

— Robert Jordan

536. “I’ve come to give you your gift back, Mordeth,” Cauthon whispered. “I consider our debt paid in full.”

— Robert Jordan

537. “It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”

— Robert Jordan

538. “The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

— Robert Jordan

539. “Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.”

— Robert Jordan

540. “Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. Just be sure you do not release them too often, or when it is best to keep control of them.”

— Robert Jordan

541. “And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. 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 World. And him they named Dragon.”

— Robert Jordan

542. “You read too much and understand too little.”

— Robert Jordan

543. “Whitecloak Questioners assume you’re guilty before they start, and they have only one sentence for that kind of guilt. They don’t care about finding the truth; they think they know that already. All they go after with their hot irons and pincers is a confession. Best you remember some secrets are too dangerous for saying aloud, even when you think you know who hears.”

— Robert Jordan

544. “Once you catch a disease and survive, you can’t get it again.”

— Robert Jordan

545. “A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.”

— Robert Jordan

546. “Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

— Robert Jordan

547. “I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.”

— Robert Jordan

548. “There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.”

— Robert Jordan

549. “Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?”

— Robert Jordan

550. “An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.”

— Robert Jordan