David Eddings Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

  David Eddings

  Perspective, Looks, Idiocy

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• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

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  Hate, Forgiving, Easier

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• Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

  David Eddings

  Easy, Should, Worthwhile

  "Sorceress Of Darshiva: (Malloreon 4)".

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• Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

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  Perfectly Good, Faces, Fronts

  David Eddings (1989). “The diamond throne”, Del Rey

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• Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

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  Running, Horse, Together

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• I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

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  Kings, Son, Soldier

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• The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

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  Lying, Player, Games

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• The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

  David Eddings

  Book, Men, Looks

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• Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed.

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  Humility, Thoughtful, Men

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

  David Eddings

  Stories

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• Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

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  Dirty, Water, Thirsty

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• Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

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  Trying, Dangerous, Rational

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• Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

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  Trying, Said, Shoulders

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• As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

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  Secret, Overwhelmed, Obscure

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• ...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

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  Uncles, Animal, Talking

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• The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

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  Men, Hands, Gold

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2001). “The Redemption of Althalus”, p.320, Del Rey

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• All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

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  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

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  Fashion, People, Costumes

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

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  Hate, Forgiving, Rising

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• It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

  David Eddings

  Being A Woman, Unfair, Accepting

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.93, Random House

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• If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

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  Self, Secret, Kind

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• Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the time. They're very good at it." For a moment Silk looked outraged at the thought, and then he suddenly laughed. "Somehow that restores my faith in the order of the universe," he declared. Wolf looked pained. "Silk," he said pointedly, "you're a very evil man. Did you know that?" "One does one's best," Silk replied mockingly.

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  Horse, Lying, Mean

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• If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

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  Pessimistic, Opinion, Fantasy

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• Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. "They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara," she complained. "They're sitting one them." "You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear." "Won't that make them angry?" "Are you afraid of a chicken?

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  Eggs, Giving, Sitting

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• Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

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  Hero, Facts, Nervous

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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