Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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.
Working
Anvils
Lying
Daydreaming
Hammer
Hammers
Silver
Iron
Lies
Instead
Anvil
More quotes by Robert Jordan
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
Robert Jordan
If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed
Robert Jordan
If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
Robert Jordan
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
Robert Jordan
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
Robert Jordan
Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
Robert Jordan
The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
Robert Jordan
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
Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
Robert Jordan
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
Robert Jordan
I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Robert Jordan
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
Robert Jordan
My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
Robert Jordan
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
Robert Jordan
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Robert Jordan
Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
Robert Jordan
When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.
Robert Jordan
It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
Robert Jordan
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
Robert Jordan
