Robert Jordan Quotes

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

My wife doesn't like me eating doughnuts. I love doughnuts.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

Sometimes we have an objective reality that tells you you shouldn’t do what you want to do.

Negotiation is not a solution and will not solve anything. Those who think of negotiation when they are threatened only reveal their weakness and incapability. That is a bad move.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

If we allow the passions of our men to get full command then indeed will this war become a reproach to the names of liberty and civilization.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

Every fight has challenges.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway!

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!