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Quotes About Balance

Loss of that loyalty, respect and trust would destroy the Cobriana. Loss of their royal line would destroy the serpiente. If the serpiente refused to acknowledge Danica's child as their monarch, no number of guards would be able to keep that child on the throne. I had walked this precarious balance before, when I had declared Danica my mate. If necessary, I would do it again.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child's tantrum.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams. Most
~ Joe Abercrombie
When you build your life around only one thing, love only one person, dream only one dream, you risk losing everything at a stroke.
~ Joe Abercrombie
They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, dreamer and cynic. And what is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ever think maybe you drink too much?" asked Wonderful. Clover smacked his lips. "Too much would, by definition, be too much. I find however much I drink is just the right amount.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Kings needs cool tempers.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.
~ Joe Abercrombie
we must sometimes have a little chaos if a better order is to emerge. There can be no progress without pain, no creation without destruction.
~ Joe Abercrombie
They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, idealist and pragmatist, dreamer and cynic.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ése es el problema que tiene la gente que dispone de un buen par de piernas, que siempre van corriendo a todas partes.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.
~ Joe Abercrombie
who tries to please everyone pleases no one at all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What is the point in prosperity, after all, if everyone has it?
~ Joe Abercrombie
There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some men are like water. No matter how high they are lifted, they always yearn to return to the appropriate level.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and hate have just knife's edge between them.
~ Joe Abercrombie