“The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.”
Oathbringer Quotes
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Oathbringer Quotes
“You are worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”
“If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.”
“We either learn together or we fall individually.”
“There was an independence to using her own feet.”
“It had given Dalinar access, again, to the necessities of life. Like wine.”
“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.”
“In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”
“You're the greatest at relationships there ever was. You ruined only the wrong ones, you see.”
“I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.”
“We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”
“The Almighty gave us messy hair to prepare us for living with men.”
“The world should end more often. It makes people so much more accomodating.”
“These men weren't well trained, but any fool with a sharpened edge could be dangerous.”
“The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better.”
“He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.”
“We certainly are an odd bunch." "Yes. Seven people. Odd.”
“I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.”
“I'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.”
“It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.”
“I'm smart enough not to follow my own advice, thank you very much.”
“The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.”
“For while life was painful, life was also sweet.”
“What's the point of goals, if not to spur you to something lofty?”
“If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.”
“I have practice following fools in their reckless pursuits.”
“People learn things from art.”
“Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.”
“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing”