The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it’s all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they’re doing something other than what they are.
A man can get killed in there.
Take what you want, and pay for it.
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.
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.
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf’s eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who’s too easily biddable.
If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Care for the living. I’ll weep for the dead later. – Perrin Aybara.
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying.
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.