Christopher Paolini: Trending quotes (page 4)

“They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.”

“But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness…”

“It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar”

“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”

“Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

“Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway…”

“The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart….”

“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”

“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”

“Even the donkeys were quiet.”

“It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

“What will be will be. No one can escape fate's design.”

“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”

“The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.”

“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”

“Let go of your worries and focus
only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
I know,"--Glaedr”

“Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.”

“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

“Why?' - Nasuada
'You know why' - Murtagh”