Quote

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

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.
Odd
Understand
Things
Like

More quotes by Robert Jordan

Image
If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
Robert Jordan
Image
Time to toss the dice
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
Better to face the bear than run from it.
Robert Jordan
Image
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
Robert Jordan
Image
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
Robert Jordan
Image
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
Image
Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
Robert Jordan
Image
A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
Robert Jordan
Image
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
Robert Jordan
Image
I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
Robert Jordan
Image
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Robert Jordan
Image
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Robert Jordan
Image
Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
Robert Jordan
Image
I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
Robert Jordan
Image
Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
Robert Jordan
Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan
Image
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become.- Rand Al'Thor
Robert Jordan
Image
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
Robert Jordan
Image
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
Robert Jordan