Discworld Characters Quotes

#1. Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Criss Jami

#2. Anger flashed in Hudson's eyes. He grabbed my upper arms and yanked me toward him until my face was only inches from his. "Leaving you that morning was the hardest fucking thing I've done in a long time," he hissed. "Don't treat it lightly.

Laurelin Paige

#3. The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science-that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

Alexandre Koyre

#4. I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

Mario Puzo

#5. God doesn't start miracles without finishing them.

Alessandro Manzoni

#6. I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.

Thomas Paine

#8. My legs are falling asleep," I blurted. It wasn't a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included.
"I could solve that." Patch's hands closed on my
hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. I would put my million dollars up as well.

James Randi

#10. Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Steve Ballmer

#11. When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies.

Barbara Comyns

#12. Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

David Brin