Terry Pratchett Goodbye Quotes

#1. Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

Edward Davey

#2. This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn

#3. If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation.

Steven Magee

#4. No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

Ray Bradbury

#6. The Japanese experience, when a conscious effort by the central bank to prick an asset bubble ended up triggering an 80 per cent stock market sell-off and a decade of economic stagnation.

Niall Ferguson

#7. Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

Marya Mannes

#8. If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

James Madison

#11. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#13. When you're that No. 1 seed, teams are gunning for you, everybody wants to be that team to knock you off. For us, we get a chance to face the No. 1 team for a second time this year, so let's see what happens.

Hines Ward

#14. The first military-trained gang member was Samuel Mason, leader of the Mason gang of river pirates operating along the Ohio River from the 1790s.

Carter F. Smith

#15. A teacher is held to a higher standard than a student, and a student is held to a higher standard than an ignoramus.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

Maya Angelou

#17. Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It's such an unpleasant word, isn't it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn't have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.

John Clare

#19. Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Alfred Bester