Quotes by "Brandon Sanderson"

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert. Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

-Hablas como si todavía creyeras en él. -Creo, señora- dijo Sazed. -¿Cómo? ¿Cómo puedes? Sazed sacudió la cabeza y se acercó a ella. -La fe no es solo para los bellos momentos y los días felices. ¿Qué es la fe, qué es creer si no continúas en ella después del fracaso?. Vin frunció el ceño. -Cualquiera puede creer en alguien, o en algo, que siempre tiene éxito, señora. Pero en el fracaso... Ah, en eso sí es difícil creer, con certeza y confianza. Es muy difícil tener valor.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?

The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?