Robin Hobb quotes - page 2

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it. (Robin Hobb)
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. View quote
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. View quote
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. View quote
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Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. View quote
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Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. View quote
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less. View quote
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. View quote
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Thinking is not always... comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. View quote
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. View quote
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Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. (Robin Hobb)
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? View quote
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it. View quote
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if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love. View quote
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? View quote
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life. View quote
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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. View quote
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You are confusing plumbing and love again. View quote
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you? View quote
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Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. View quote
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Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? (Robin Hobb)
I never confuse the cost of something with its value. View quote
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One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. View quote
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Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us. View quote
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of. View quote
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