Loial Quotes & Sayings

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows. — Margaret Atwood

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. — Robert Jordan

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up. — David Plotz

I didn't know that cats could grin.'
'They all can,' said the Duchess, 'and most of 'em do. — Lewis Carroll

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. — John Key

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age. — Robert Jordan

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. — Ambrose Bierce

It soon became obvious, even with9in the stedding, that the Pattern was grwoing frail. The sky darkened. Our dead appeared, standing in rings outside the broders of the stedding, looking in. Most troubingly, trees fell ill, and no song would heal them.
It was in this time of sorrows that I stepped up to the Great Stump. At first, I was forbidden, but my mother, covril, demanded I have my chance. I do not know wht sparked her change of heart, as she herself had argued quite decisvely for the opposing side. My hands shook. I would be the last speaker, and most seemed to have already made up their minds to open the Book of Translation. They considered me an afterthought.
And I knew that unless I spoke true, humanity would be left along to face the Shadow. In that moment, my nervousness fled. I felt only a stilness, a calm sense of purpose. I opened my mouth, and I began to speak.
-from The Dragon Reborn, by Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, of Stedding Shangtai — Brandon Sanderson

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom? — Maria Montessori

I've stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now? Loial — Robert Jordan

Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial — Robert Jordan

I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me. — Iyanla Vanzant

We had decided to go with These Boots Are Made for Walkin — Jen Calonita

Here or there, it is the same fight, I think, Loial — Robert Jordan

Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends. — Robert Jordan

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead. — Robert Jordan

Professionally, I don't necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won't be able to have fun and express yourself. — Jared Leto

If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it. — Neale Donald Walsch

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable. — Steve Alford