We’ll do it. Somehow we’ll make them listen – even if they got their fingers planted firmly in their ears. Makes one wonder how they manage it, with their heads rammed up their own backsides.
You’re the only person I know that I can cheer up by promising to kill him.” “You didn’t promise to kill me,” Wayne said, pulling on his socks. “You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.” “Your grasp of the language is startling,” Wax said, “considering how you so frequently brutalize it.” “Ain’t nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.
If they cannot make you less foolish, at least let them give you hope.
Stories and legends, Teft,” Kaladin said. “We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don’t change. They are corrupt now. They were corrupt then.
Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it.
Don’t dream the small dreams of other men.
Banning books is tricky business, Vin – the more stink the Ministry makes about a text, the more attention it will draw, and the more people will be tempted to read it.
It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth, to seek it out.
Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.
Every pasture needs three things,” the woman said, voice changing, as if she were quoting from memory. “Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim.
Despair, hate, loss, frustration, horror. How could any man live this way? To be a surgeon, to live knowing that you would be too weak to save some? When other men failed, a field of crops got worms in them. When a surgeon failed, someone died.
You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.
These places tend to have row upon row of neat bookshelves, arranged nicely. They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute – so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.
Everything you assumed is no longer valid.
There are some things you can’t hide from, Vin. I know – I’ve tried.” She.
Shai’s uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.
Thus you know the fury of my anger, fell beast.
Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.
Remember, obedience is defiance.
Middle ground only comes in war after lots of people have died – and only after the important people are worried they might actually lose.