Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese. Terry Pratchett cowardwantmen HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids. Terry Pratchett knivesjourneymean God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. Terry Pratchett playerdarkmoving After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Terry Pratchett musicvoicetwo And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. Terry Pratchett discworlddefinitionswould-be Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. Terry Pratchett racistrunningthinking The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield. Terry Pratchett seniormagiclong The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine. Terry Pratchett realsecretdream The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett discworldpensifs 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 explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch! Terry Pratchett strongatheistreligious Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Terry Pratchett perspectivethis-worldworld If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you. Terry Pratchett inspirationalfunnybook The significant owl hoots in the night. Terry Pratchett significantowlnight Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. Terry Pratchett discworlddignityhabit He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things. Terry Pratchett ignorantimportantfeet No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny. Terry Pratchett atheistreligiousbelieve 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 a human? Case proven. Terry Pratchett catarguingthinking Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. Terry Pratchett sophisticatedtaxationway You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs. Terry Pratchett girlgivingpeople The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy. Terry Pratchett witchburning
