Top 17 Ponder Stibbons Quotes
#1. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.
Terry Pratchett
#2. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
Terry Pratchett
#5. I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
Bruce Feiler
#6. Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. Trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct
Lemony Snicket
#8. We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
John Barton
#9. We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#10. I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
Elie Saab
#11. The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.
Sean Berdy
#13. Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.
William Zinsser
#14. I was brought up on a ranch but, because of my father, the romance of guns had somehow escaped me. In his eyes, a gun was a tool, not some half-assed deity. Guys who named their guns worried him and me. I
Craig Johnson
#15. The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.
Richard Flanagan
#16. The years rolled slowly by and I found myself alone, surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, found myslef further and further from my home I guess I lost my way - There were og so many roads.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#17. Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers.
Erin Morgenstern