Terry Pratchett quotes - page 19

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. (Terry Pratchett)
You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. View quote
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There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime. View quote
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If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. View quote
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The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. View quote
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One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet. View quote
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You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? View quote
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If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. View quote
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And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. View quote
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Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction. View quote
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It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying. (Terry Pratchett)
Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. View quote
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I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. View quote
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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? View quote
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Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life. View quote
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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! View quote
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What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir? View quote
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Lessee... he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it. View quote
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The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys. View quote
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... you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong. View quote
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You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we've always done it this way.' A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? (Terry Pratchett)
Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. View quote
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Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead. View quote
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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus. View quote
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Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! View quote
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