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61 " Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient. "
― Brandon Sanderson , The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
62 " And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you "
63 " Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. "
64 " I strive for nothing if not consistency "
65 " He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. "
66 " I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own?I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies. "
67 " Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret. "
68 " What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure? "
69 " If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. "
70 " I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it. "
71 " Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him. "
72 " There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too. "
73 " You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled. "
74 " I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on. "
75 " You can't just avoid the game by saying you don't want to play. "
76 " I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available. "
77 " God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality...We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case? "
78 " Oh, don’t worry. If you didn’t say some stupid things every once in a while, you certainly wouldn’t fit in with this group. "
79 " The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most. "
80 " In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all. "