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.
Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.
Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball....
Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months, said the Baron.Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about fore...
Well, yes, but it's not about the football.You're saying that football is not about football?It's the sharing, she said. It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole...
What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
What're quantum mechanics?I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.
When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.
When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.
When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.
Where's the sense in promising to achive the achievable?
Who really knew what evil lurked in the heart of men?ME.Who knew what sane men were capable of?STILL ME, I’M AFRAID.Vimes glanced at the door of the last room. No, he wasn’t going in there again. No w...
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.
YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE
You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
You can’t inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
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?
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree.One of the giants grinned at him.Druellae snorted. Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
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