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Kind Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about…
- When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.
- It takes a special kind of person to fight back.
- I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I…
- People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave…
- It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
- Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided…
- William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free…
- Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?…
- 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…
- Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
- You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.
- Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple…
- The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew…
- What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
- And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If…
- A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this…
- You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette…
- Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
- It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the…
- People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
- Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is…
- Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows…
- There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes…
- Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly…
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- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd