Terry Pratchett Quotes

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.

A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

All's well that ends better.