logo

Quotes About Conflict

Were they among war's greatest heroes — or history's greatest mass murderers?
~ Robert Jackson
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
~ Robert Jordan
Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
~ Robert Jordan
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
~ Robert Jordan
You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. ~ Nynaeve
~ Robert Jordan
the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses
~ Robert Jordan
How would you feel, Elayne said softly, if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away? I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country, Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.
~ Robert Jordan
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know.
~ Robert Jordan
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
~ Robert Jordan
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.
~ Robert Jordan
Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.
~ Robert Jordan
You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time.
~ Robert Jordan
A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?
~ Robert Jordan
You're not my enemy, but your Empire is.
~ Robert Jordan
What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.
~ Robert Jordan
Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.
~ Robert Jordan
The Seanchan fight the Shadow. -message from Dragon Reborn to Egwene
~ Robert Jordan
WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.
~ Robert Jordan
One of the first rules he'd learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.
~ Robert Jordan
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.
~ Robert Jordan
I never thought swords were much use—even if you have the skill, child, there are always men who have as much, and a deal more strength
~ Robert Jordan
To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.
~ Robert Jordan
Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.
~ Robert Jordan
Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now—" "Betrayer of Hope.
~ Robert Jordan