Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 13)

“One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.”

“Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.”

“His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.”

“Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.”

“I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death.
"What does it contain, then?"
ME.”

“I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?”

“Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.”

“On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.”

“Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.

When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.”

“There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

“No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary ladder.”

“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”

“But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.”

“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people.”

“Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it…”

“[Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.”

“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.”

“Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?”