Terry Pratchett quotes - page 29

I believe it's what Abraham felt on the mountain and Einstein did when it turned out that E=mc2. It's that moment, that brief epiphany when the universe opens up and shows us something, and in that instant we get just a sense of an order greater than Heaven and, as yet at least, beyond the grasp of Stephen Hawking. It doesn't require worship, but, I think, rewards intelligence, observation and enquiring minds. (Terry Pratchett)
I don't think I've found God, but I may have seen where gods come from. View quote
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I don't have much truck with the "religion is the cause of most of our wars" school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God. View quote
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If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on. View quote
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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'. View quote
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Yes! I'm! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am! View quote
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Bursar?" "Yes, Archchancellor?" "You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?" "Me? No, Archchancellor." "Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head. View quote
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Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them. View quote
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The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used itadded the rider 'and that someone is me'. View quote
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They didn't have to be funny - they werejokes. View quote
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Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another. (Terry Pratchett)
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history. View quote
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Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true. View quote
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Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was. View quote
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I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND. View quote
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Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway. View quote
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Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. View quote
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They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness. View quote
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There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore. View quote
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Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. View quote
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We cannae just rush in, ye ken." "Point o' order, Big Man. Yejust rush in. Wejust rush in." "Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta knowye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'. (Terry Pratchett)
Don't, Miss Tick had said. things. View quote
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Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds! View quote
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That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it. View quote
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You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich. View quote
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