Joe Abercrombie Quotes

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Every new time will give its law.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

I love to watch times change!

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.