Quotes About Challenge

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning. -Mat

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

p.s. In case you don't know what Do what needs to be done means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad

Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers. -Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .

You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!

Burn me, Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do it, just so I can tell the story.

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.

Its time to role the dice.

You can't patch a hull when the whole boat's burned.