Terry Goodkind Quotes

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

Your destiny is to find the truth.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Only those you trust can betray you.

Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, " Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.