Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

Brother?" Gavilar said. Dalinar turned back and regarded Gavilar, who was bathed by the bleeding light of a fire reaching its end. "Words are important," Gavilar said. "Much more than you give them credit for being." "Perhaps," Dalinar said. "But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?" "Perhaps. I can't help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.

That's the difference between you and them, Elend, he thought. Those philosophers you read – they were revolutionaries. They were willing to risk execution. You can't even stand up to your father.

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.

Most people, they didn't understand hats, and Wayne didn't really blame them. Until you'd had a good, lucky hat, you wouldn't understand the value of it.

Perspective. When you are young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we are all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate.

El honor ha muerto

tough, and square-jawed, J.C. is a cold-blooded killer. Or so he claims. I think it means he likes to murder amphibians.

People are never pleased when you reveal that their beliefs are wrong.

They kill you with fear first and the sword second. Stand your ground.

It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . 

The more faces we wear the more confused they become.

The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

A good man, I don´t think I´ve ever known one of those before

We were an audience watching a duet. A duet in which the violinists tried to ram their violins down each other's throats.

before thousands upon thousands of people suffer.

Silence spread from him like a bad smell.

But we don't. 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.

Ranette said a lot of mean things, but they weren't ... well, they weren't actually mean. He joked, and she joked. And sure, sometimes there was an edge of truth to it, but that's what friends was about. Making you look a little silly when you were together, so that you didn't look really stupid when you were apart.

Debe alguien, un ser invisible, declarar qué es el bien para que sea bueno? Yo creo que mi propia moralidad, que responde solo ante mi corazón, es más segura y veraz que la moralidad de aquellos que hacen el bien solo porque temen el castigo. —Pero

Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity.

La empatía es la venta a pérdidas de las emociones. Termina compensando con el tiempo.

How can she believe?" Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. "Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. Talk to them, watch them shine. It isn't all that tough to understand.