Thomas Olivent > Thomas's Quotes

“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“Where there are policemen there’s crime, sergeant, remember that.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Education is never without cost; all the truly valuable lessons leave a scar.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Death

“It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was,”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Steep paths build muscles, know-how, and empathy, an easy one, only indifference.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Empyre

“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?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT. . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“I HAVE WATCHED YOUR PROGRESS WITH INTEREST, ESMERELDA WEATHERWAX, said the voice in the dark. He was firm, but oh so polite. But now there was a question in his voice. PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? “I don’t know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people,” Granny replied sharply. “And I never wanted the world—just a part of it, a small part that I could keep safe, that I could keep away from storms. Not the ones of the sky, you”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a real person, not like you, and when you know that, there’s no crime too big, is there? No crime you won’t do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“Being a witch is a man’s job: that’s why it needs women to do it.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“The hated have no reason to love.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff