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And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
~ Robert Jordan
Men! Min muttered at the door. Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
~ Robert Jordan
Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they'd understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.
~ Robert Jordan
I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.
~ Robert Jordan
Suddenly he grinned, but his grin was as dark as a scowl; his eyes sparkled merrily, laughing at the foot of the gallows.
~ Robert Jordan
I've been thinking." Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.
~ Robert Jordan
Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers.
~ Robert Jordan
Siuan said that "stubborn" was a redundancy when it came to men.
~ Robert Jordan
Quite a story." Elyas nodded. "Yes, quite a story. There's a few things wrong with it, but the main thing is Dapple says it's all a lump of lies. Every last word.
~ Robert Jordan
Why do you call me 'wetlander'?" Gaul gestured toward the river; even Perrin's eyes could not be sure in the moonlight, but he thought the Aiel looked uneasy for the first time.
~ Robert Jordan
Perhaps a mustache, like that thing infesting the gleeman's face.
~ Robert Jordan
Moiraine, Perrin said, the man is dangerous. All men are dangerous, she replied in a cool voice.
~ Robert Jordan
Your humility, Lan Gaidin, has always been more arrogance than most kings could manage with their armies at their backs.
~ Robert Jordan
The clothes he had been wearing lay neatly folded on a banded travel chest that was carved and gilded within an inch of its life.
~ Robert Jordan
Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin. "The grave is no bar to my call." "The Horn of Valere?
~ Robert Jordan
Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given. The price is paid.' "A
~ Robert Jordan
Canluum, Lan paid as little attention to the stares he
~ Robert Jordan
What he did know was that he was dangerous; he had nothing to offer any woman except pain.
~ Robert Jordan
They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum
This book, in other words, is another empirically grounded speculation, another conceptual itinerary.
~ Robert Kegan
who was eleven years her junior.
~ Robert Keller
His plan was to create completely submissive "zombie" sex slaves and to achieve this he began to perform crude "lobotomies.
~ Robert Keller
Another macabre discovery was a quilt, which Faye had made from the murdered men's clothing.
~ Robert Keller