Brandon Sanderson Quotes
Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.
Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.
You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze
Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.
I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell, " Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.
Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck, ” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.
It is a time of change, '' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- if you don't continue in it after failure.
So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere
If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit...Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about a man's life by what he thew away - or by what he was willing to burn in order to stay warm.
As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.
I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.
This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...
To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.
Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.
We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.
My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.
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.
That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.
It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.
It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.
To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.
There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.
That was the nature of the waters. You never knew what lurked below.
Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)
Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.
All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.
What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w
A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.
It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.
I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.
If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.
The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is."He stopped in the
Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.
Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.
A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.
Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception
We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.
If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.
People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.