"Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know."

Robert Jordan Literature See all quotes by Robert Jordan →

React to this quote

More by Robert Jordan

See all

“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Does Michael Jackson or Archie Bunker or the president of General Motors need to know about quantum mechanics? Of course not. You can live a full life without that. But if you don’t believe that the u…"

— Frank Wilczek

Science1951

#knowledge

"Mike Nichols: Interviewer: Are you going to the afterparty? Nichols: I don't know, is there another party, after the party? Interviewer: Yeah. After your dinner. Nichols: I didn't know that. I don't t…"

— M.I.A.

Music1975

#knowledge

"A recent study concludes that women over 40 have statistically as much chance of getting killed by a terrorist as of getting married. And would rather."

— Nicole Hollander

Journalism1939

#knowledge

"In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wa…"

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature1871–1922

#hope