Quote

Time to toss the dice

Robert Jordan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Time
Dice
Toss

More quotes by Robert Jordan

Image
It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
Robert Jordan
Image
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
Robert Jordan
Image
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
Robert Jordan
Image
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
Robert Jordan
Image
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.
Robert Jordan
Image
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
Robert Jordan
Image
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Robert Jordan
Image
The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
Robert Jordan
Image
If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
Robert Jordan
Image
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
Robert Jordan
Image
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
Robert Jordan
Image
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
Robert Jordan
Image
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
Robert Jordan
Image
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
Robert Jordan
Image
Better to face the bear than run from it.
Robert Jordan
Image
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
Robert Jordan
Image
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
Robert Jordan
Image
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
Robert Jordan
Image
Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
Robert Jordan
Image
Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
Robert Jordan