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“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

A saying in Maule, Tear
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.”

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1993)

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: The Gathering Storm

“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Rand al'Thor
Source: A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Ogier saying
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

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

Robert Jordan

Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

“Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin."”

Robert Jordan

Journal of the Unknown Scholar, entry for the Feast of Freia, 1000 NE
(27 October 2009)

“When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

Robert Jordan

Gawyn Trakand
(15 October 1994)

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Nandera
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.”

Robert Jordan

Siuan Sanche to Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1994)

“The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”

Robert Jordan

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1991)

“Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.”

Robert Jordan

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1993)

“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?”

Robert Jordan

Pedron Niall
(15 October 1991)

“If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?”

Robert Jordan

Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)

“Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.”

Robert Jordan

Lady Faile ni Bashere t'Aybara, wife of Lord Perrin Goldeneyes
(27 October 2009)

“Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble.”

Robert Jordan

Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1993)