Sword of Truth
118 quotes
Biography
"[Richard] remembered what people always said, 'Trouble sires three children,' and knew immediately that he didn't want to meet the third child."
""Oh, but how I do love it when men I respect marry smart women. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence." — Annalina "Ann" Aldurren"
""'Profit' is a dirty word only to the leeches of the world. They want it seen as evil, so they can more easily snatch what they did not earn." — Victor"
""We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less." — Kahlan Amnell"
""Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." — Kahlan"
""There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion." — Zedd"
""Nothing is ever easy." — Zedd"
""Think of the solution, not the problem." — Richard"
""When you are out numbered, and the situation is hopeless, you have no option--you must attack." — The Adventures of Bonnie Day"
""There is an old women's proverb, maybe you have heard it before. 'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path when there is a man in her line of sight.'" — Kahlan"
""Fate does not seek our consent." — Zedd"
""The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking." — Zedd"
""I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends." — Zedd"
""My father taught me something very much like that. He said, 'Don't shed tears for those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then.'" — Kahlan"
""Youth. Youth holds much hope, but not much wisdom. I know the ways of people. Of men. He has been gone too long from my skirts. He will have long ago forgotten me, and found another." — Verna Sauventreen"
""'Third time tricked, marks the fool.'" — Richard"
""History is rarely made by reasonable men." — Zedd"
""Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is." — Zedd"
""Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." — Richard"
""Sometimes that's all life is: one desperate act after another." — Zedd"
""Only a fool walks into the future backwards." — Commander General Trimack"
""You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed." — Adie"
""People are stupid." — Zedd"
""One must observe before one acts, or more harm than help can be the result." — Drefan Rahl"
""Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey." — Zedd"