Wilem Quotes & Sayings

What was that shameful display?" Wilem demanded after she had gone. "What?" I asked. "What?" he mocked my tone. "Can you even pretend to be that thick? If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two ... We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully. — Patrick Rothfuss

[Simmon] "Go on."
I [Kvothe] stayed where I was. "It's not that easy."
"Nothing's ever easy with you," Wilem muttered. — Patrick Rothfuss

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. — John Dewey

Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back! — Patrick Rothfuss

Suddenly we were in Hawaii - tropical mountains running down to sparkling seas, sweeping bays, flawless beaches guarded by listing palms, little green and rocky islands standing off the headlands. From time to time we drove through sunny canefields, overlooked by the steep, blue eminence of the Great Dividing Range. — Bill Bryson

That is also an idiom." Wilem grumbled. "Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?" He shook his head. — Patrick Rothfuss

Am I going to be known by the car I travel in or by the path I pave and walk on? — Amit Abraham

Each day, in itself, brings with an eternity — Paulo Coelho

Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you."
"I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say. — Patrick Rothfuss

She has enough men fawning over her," I said. "They come and go like ... " I strained to think of an analogy and failed. "I'd rather be her friend."
"You would rather be close to her heart," Wilem said without any particular inflection. "You would rather be joyfully held in the circle of her arms. But you fear she will reject you. You fear she would laugh and you would look the fool." Wilem shrugged easily. "You are hardly the first to feel this way. There is no shame in it."
That struck uncomfortably close to the mark, and for a long moment I couldn't think of anything to say in reply. "I hope," I admitted quietly. "But I don't want to assume. I've seen what happens to the men that assume too much and cling to her. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish. — Ralph Waldo Trine

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living. — Niall Williams

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God. — Robert Pattinson

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. — Brian Tracy

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth."
Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?"
"He sounds more sincere then that when he lies. — Patrick Rothfuss

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved. — Max Von Essen