Quotes About Power

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

A secret spoken finds wings.

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

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

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

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

Men, Thom murmured. Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations. He shook his head. It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.

I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!

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

I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

They will pay. I am the Lord of the Morning

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.

A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.