Terry Pratchett Quotes

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.