{"author":"Robert Jordan","author_id":"Robert+Jordan","total_quotes":95,"quotes":[{"text":"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["lying"],"id":2247,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["fantasy","listening","manipulation"],"id":10898,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["courage","knowledge","wisdom"],"id":11876,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["fantasy","robert-jordan","the-great-hunt","the-wheel-of-time"],"id":13799,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["strategy"],"id":13972,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["economics","jobs","poor","tax"],"id":20402,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["trust"],"id":28009,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["women"],"id":29913,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["forgiveness","men","women"],"id":30166,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["men","women"],"id":30396,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}