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Us Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the…
- Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it…
- Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the…
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier…
- What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say…
- I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then…
- Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.
- We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with…
- Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.
- I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of…
- Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
- At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we…
- 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…
- Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
- Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to…
- There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if…
- It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create…
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
- THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.
- Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we…
- Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed…
- Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.
- One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong