Quote

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Terry Goodkind

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Retain
Mother
Someone
Insist
Give
Submit
Giving
Accomplished
Easily
Dignity
Victory
Confessor
Small

More quotes by Terry Goodkind

Image
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroy
Terry Goodkind
Image
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
Terry Goodkind
Image
Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
Terry Goodkind
Image
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
Terry Goodkind
Image
It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
Terry Goodkind
Image
That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Those who have come here to hate should leave now for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
Terry Goodkind
Image
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
Terry Goodkind
Image
There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
Terry Goodkind
Image
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
Terry Goodkind
Image
But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.
Terry Goodkind
Image
People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Think of the solution, not the problem
Terry Goodkind
Image
The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Richard thought a moment. I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand. Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.
Terry Goodkind