Brandon Sanderson Quote #1
... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #2
... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?
Brandon Sanderson Quote #3
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #4
...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become....
Brandon Sanderson Quote #5
Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today?
Brandon Sanderson Quote #6
Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia...
Step One: find Regalia, then totally explode her. Lots and Lots.
Step Two: put Val on decaf.
Step Three: Mizzy gets a cookie.Brandon Sanderson Quote #7
What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.
They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.
I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.Brandon Sanderson Quote #8
What responsibility are you avoiding...
He wasn't avoiding responsibility...
Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a man was cursed, or if he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed. Those failures couldn't have been prevented. Someone or something else had ordained them.Brandon Sanderson Quote #9
XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #10
You act as if I were your enemy.
“You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.”
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?
“There is no need to hasten that end,” Vin said. “No reason to force it.”
All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?
Vin fell silent.
Do not mourn because the day of this world’s end has arrived, Ruin said. That end was ordained the very day of the world’s conception. There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.
For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.Brandon Sanderson Quote #11
[…] What's wrong with her?
Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.Brandon Sanderson Quote #12
[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #13
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #14
A crença certa é como um bom manto, julgo eu. Se vos servir bem, mantém-vos quente e segura. O ajuste errado, no entanto, pode sufocar.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #15
a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.Brandon Sanderson Quote #16
A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #17
A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom - regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #18
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
Brandon Sanderson Quote #19
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.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #20
A river is easier to channel than to stop.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #21
A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #22
Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours.
Ranette: Your mansion isn't safe?
Wax: My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study
Ranette: Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.Brandon Sanderson Quote #23
All people are musicians Wit countered. The question is whether or not they share their songs.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #24
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.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #25
And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment?”
“Of course I am,” Lightsong said. “My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?”
“Of course not,” she agreed. “You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.”
“I am rather exceptional in that regard.Brandon Sanderson Quote #26
And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #27
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
Brandon Sanderson Quote #28
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be.
Foolhardy? Kelsier asked with a laugh. that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!
Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years
We'll fix that Kelsier promised.Brandon Sanderson Quote #29
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
Brandon Sanderson Quote #30
Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like... well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural.
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