Quotes About Men

In Kaladin's eyes, there was no sin greater than the betrayal of one's allies in battle. Except, perhaps, for the betrayal of one's own men—of murdering them after they risked their lives to protect you.

So it's our fault." "Yes. Like everything else. War. Famine. Bad hair." "Wait. Bad hair?" Shallan blew a lock of it out of her eyes. "Loud. Stubborn. Oblivious to our attempts to fix it. The Almighty gave us messy hair to prepare us for living with men.

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.

Do you know why I dislike men like you, Venture?" Yomen finally asked. "My insufferable charm and wit?" Elend asked. "I doubt it's my good looks - but, compared to that of an obligator, I suppose even my face could be enviable.

She doesn´t look so dangerous.Still, a blade that has slain a hundread men may not shine like one freshly forged. Danger, sweet like a forbidden perfume".

Suspicion is healthy in our profession—but only to an extent. I'd rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me." "That sounds foolish," Vin said. "Is happiness foolish?

You were supposed to be different. You-" "Why?" Dalinar asked, standing calmly. "Why what?" Kaladin snapped. "Why am I different?" "Because you don't throw us away!" Kaladin shouted. "Because you... because..." Because you care about your men.

Honor' is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians.

Honor is not dead so long as he lives in the hearts of men!

Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.

You can't stop a storm by blowing harder. You can't save men by killing others. We should all become surgeons. Every last one of us….

Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn't have them!

You'll find God in the same place you're going to find salvation from this mess," Wit said. "Inside the hearts of men.

Emotion. It is what defines men—though ironically you are poor vessels for it. It fills you up and breaks you, unless you find someone to share the burden.

He clutched to these names, repeating each one in his head, holding them like precious gemstones. The names mattered. The men mattered.

What proof do we have? The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory?

Epics are weak because they are fools. They will destroy this world. Give men power, and they abuse it. That is all one needs to know.

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

He was rambling. But, oddly, his mind felt clearer now than it had in weeks. Perhaps it was the clarity of perspective. Most men spent their entire lives wondering about the future. Well, his future was empty now.

I hear you stabbed my floor,' she noted. 'That's good hardwood, I'll have you know. Honestly. Men and their weapons

The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.

As the plow breaks the earth shall he break the lives of men, and all that was shall be consumed in the fire of his eyes,' " Egwene said. " 'The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.

The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar," Wit said. "And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.