Robert Jordan Quotes

Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?

The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden.

Weep for what is lost forever.

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

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.

Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I.

Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.

At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.

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

There are things worth fighting for.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.