The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.
– Joe Abercrombie
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- The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
- The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail. – Joe Abercrombie
- Friends don’t menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay? – Sarah Rees Brennan
- Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto. – Joe Montaperto
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too. – Nick Hornby
- I’ve been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it. – Dean Koontz
- Gods not looking for the next great Preacher or worship leader he is looking for a BROKEN PERSON WHO WILL BE FOUND IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER!!!!! – Joe Joe Dawson
- Never start a day or activity without a plan. Learn to plan your work, and then work your plan. – Mensah Oteh
- I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day’s event to occur. Life only stands still for them. – Ingrid Nkenlifack
- Don’t live life anyhow, else you get anywhere. Plan your life somehow and you can get somewhere. A slow plan is better than no plan. – Israelmore Ayivor
- God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into. – Billy Graham
- [A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan. – Adam Gopnik
- Fangs out? Check. Claws sharp? Check. Plan? Plan? What plan? I’m making this up as I go. – Garon Whited
- To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don’t have friends. – Eraldo Banovac
- You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. – Joe Abercrombie
- Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. – Joe Abercrombie
- Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. – Joe Abercrombie
- So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero. – Joe Abercrombie
- …Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field – Joe Abercrombie
- Every war carries within it the seeds of the next. – Joe Abercrombie
- Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit. – Joe Abercrombie
- One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. – Joe Abercrombie
- Enough pain makes a coward of anyone. – Joe Abercrombie
- Men are brittle, I reckon. They don’t bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. – Joe Abercrombie
- Memories sharp enough to cut himself on – the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger. – Joe Abercrombie
- it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion – Joe Abercrombie
- The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do… – Joe Abercrombie
- Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. – Joe Abercrombie
- Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it. – Joe Abercrombie
- A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance – Joe Abercrombie
- I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business. – Joe Abercrombie
- But you know what they say – old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter. – Joe Abercrombie
- It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back. – Joe Abercrombie
- Sometimes it doesn’t matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it. – Joe Abercrombie
- Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death’s breathing on their shoulder. – Joe Abercrombie