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Quotes About Change

On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
~ Robert Jordan
He had four rules concerning action and information. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head.
~ Robert Jordan
Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
~ Robert Jordan
And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered
~ Robert Jordan
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become." Perrin
~ Robert Jordan
Some men would call it brash, foolhardy, suicidal. The world was rarely changed by men who were unwilling to try being at least one of the three.
~ Robert Jordan
Perrin ergueu o machado para atirá-lo no lago, mas Elyas agarrou seu pulso. Você vai usá-lo, garoto, e, enquanto odiar usá-lo, vai usá-lo com mais sabedoria do que a maioria dos homens. Espere. Se algum dia você não o odiar mais, aí sim será hora de jogá-lo o mais longe que puder e correr para o outro lado .
~ Robert Jordan
never be able to tell you what your friendship means to me, what you mean to me." Despite everything, that was simple truth. "The whole world seems to be changing every time I blink. You three are one of the few firm spots in it.
~ Robert Jordan
Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.
~ Robert Jordan
I knew an old Illianer woman; once," she said slowly. "When she was young, her mother arranged a marriage for her with a man she had never even met. They do that down in Illian, sometimes. She said she spent the first five years raging against him, and the next five scheming to make his life miserable without his knowing who was to blame. It was only years later, she said, when he died, that she realized he really had been the love of her life." "I
~ Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.
~ Robert Jordan
Perhaps I also dwell too much on what is gone. And yet, the groves were beautiful.
~ Robert Jordan
We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long as it turns.
~ Robert Jordan
Let any man as wants start carrying a sword, and soon we'd be as bad as everyplace else. I heard what they're like, Mistress, and we don't want that here.
~ Robert Jordan
Thom chuckled. "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long as it turns. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing. Think coolly, and you make it back to shore. Get your neck hot, and you'll drown.
~ Robert Jordan
No point in crying when the iron split; you just reforged it.
~ Robert Jordan
The wave that has passed cannot be called back.
~ Robert Jordan
Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.
~ Robert Jordan
Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.
~ Robert Jordan
If you would live, you must die;
~ Robert Jordan
I suppose it is," Perrin said sadly, wondering why he should feel sad. The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.
~ Robert Jordan
Times change. People change. Too much change for me. I suppose I am growing old.
~ Robert Jordan
Las viejas barreras se debilitan. Nuestro tiempo está impregnado de disolución y cambio. Las cosas antiguas vuelven a manifestarse y otras nuevas tienen nacimiento. Tal vez vivamos lo bastante para ver el fin de una era.» Se estremeció.
~ Robert Jordan