Joe Abercrombie Quotes

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

It is done, and I will abide by it.

You need to fix it, Mr. Dudley, or we will get someone who will.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

I follow the roles.

It's good to be held accountable.

A rule is a rule.

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.