Brandon Sanderson, Words Of Radiance Quotes

This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Progress is learning to control your world.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

What you did tonight was clever, ” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that, ” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

I ain't grouchy, ” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

If the afterlife really is a big war, ” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been br

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong plac

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.

It’s not a lie, ” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck, ” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen, ' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

So the gods, ” Moash said, nursing his own drink, “were pleased that you solved problems on your own . . . by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?”“Hush, ” Rock said. “Is good story.

Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.