“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”
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People Quotes — page 898 of 5018
“I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.”
“What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?”
“A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.”
“Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.”
“There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.”
“Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.”
“People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.”
“Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.”
“It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of”
“History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it”
“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”
“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”
“I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.”
“I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.”
“History tends to change people who think they're changing it.”
“The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?”
“I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.”
“I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.”
“Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly being dragged off certain people, just think to what good causes they could be put - wouldn't that be a lovely thought'?”