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81 " We have been given great responsibilities, great works to perform, and surely we will be commanded to continue— "
― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)
82 " I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse than I ever could. I "
83 " Men always seemed to think violence could solve anything. If she had had a stout stick, she would have thumped all three of them about the shoulders until they saw reason. "
84 " Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long "
85 " You are well muscled for such a short man, Matrim Cauthon. "
86 " At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying. "
87 " I ran from you as hard as I could to shield my honor. And you followed me even here. The rings do not lie, and I can run no more." Her tone firmed decisively. "I will run no more. "
88 " We all make our limits. The thought slid up surprisingly from somewhere. And we set them further out than we have any right. "
89 " yet not a quarter so well as you display yourself, for night-blooming dara lilies would weep with envy to see you stroll beside the moonlit water, as I would do, and make myself a bard to sing your praises by this very moon. "
90 " No woman with grit could give up when she had children "
91 " Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. Besides, "
92 " People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good bit stick in their own pockets, or else they liked the power that spreading it about gave them, liked it far too much. "
93 " We all do as we must, as the Pattern decrees. For some there is less freedom than for others. It does not matter whether we choose or are chosen. What must be, must be. "
94 " No, it is not me that’s changed. I’m the same; it is everything else that’s different. "
95 " You must learn to ride fate. Only by surrendering to the Pattern can you begin to have some control over the course of your own life. If you fight, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only misery where you might have found contentment instead. "
96 " A man is an oak, a woman a willow,” the saying ran. The oak fought the wind and was broken, while the willow bent when it must and survived. "
97 " Rest well. And eat well tonight. In the morning, eat nothing. It is not good to dance the spears with a full stomach. "
98 " Предпазливостта връщаше лодката у дома, но понякога смелостта я връщаше натоварена с риба. "
99 " The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow. "
100 " Ladies! A woman is a woman, Rand al’Thor. Unless she is a Wise One,” she "