You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn’t it? Sorry.
You can’t inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.
When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.
When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
What're quantum mechanics?I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.
Welcome to , Moist said to himself. It's hope, turned inside out.
Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.
This is no way to treat a book, he said. Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.
They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.
They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?
They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh be...
There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.
There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat.
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.
There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.