This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.
We are in an age of floating coalitions. Someone may be with you on one issue and against you on the next.
Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Clinton
The senator who is driving you crazy today may be with you tomorrow.
As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.
That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.
America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
Today’s enemy may be tomorrow’s ally (and vice versa).
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.
