“People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“It’s hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: ‘Bugger off, this is my bush! Aargh, the nest thief! Have sex with me, I can make my chest big and red!”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“...a man could be dogmatic, and that was all right, or he could be stupid, and no harm done, but stupid and dogmatic at the same time was too much, especially fluxed with body odor.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“Well, the lion is a big ol’ coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They’re killers, and they hunt together. It’s the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“No state, no matter how advanced, is immune from flawed leadership, the erosion of political checks and balances, and the degradation of its institutions.”
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
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