Lini Quotes & Sayings

Should and would build no bridges.
-Lini — Robert Jordan

Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow. — Robert Jordan

When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not. — Robert Jordan

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. — Daniel Defoe

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. — Walter Mosley

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours. — Vera Nazarian

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve. — Robert Jordan

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before. — Robert Jordan

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers. — Robert Jordan

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential? — James E. Rogers

go outside the box! — G. Lini Hanafiah

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was. — Tibor Fischer