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“We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?”
“Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head,” said Sergeant Colon.
Men at Arms (1993)
That is because government thinks mostly about all the people—they are not very good at individuals—and undoubtedly there would be those in the country who consider that handing her back against her will might save any bad blood between two countries.
Dodger (2012)
'Whose side are they on?' said Brocando.
'Sides? Their own, I suppose, just like everyone else.'
The Carpet People (1971)
Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then!
You can't make people happy by law.
Greebo's technique was unscientific and wouldn't have stood a chance against any decent swordmanship, but on his side was the fact that it is almost impossible to develop decent swordmanship when you seem to have run into a food mixer that is biting your ear off.
Witches Abroad (1991)
Her opponents started off grinning at the temerity of a slight young girl attacking them, and then rapidly passed through various stages of puzzlement, doubt, concern, and abject gibbering terror as they apparently became the center of a flashing, tightening circle of steel.
Sourcery (1988)
I always thought Detritus would be good at: "I bet you're wondrin' how many time I fired dis crossbow--"
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants — the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.
The Carpet People (1971)
I don't have much truck with the "religion is the cause of most of our wars" school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.
If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind.
Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.
Possibly because of this, I have never disliked religion.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
Too many people want to have written.
God could hardly have been at that wedding or He would not have allowed it to turn from love to something so awful. When he’d asked Solomon, the old man had stroked his chin and mmm’d a few times and then said that surely any Almighty worth believing in would agree. And if not, Solomon would explain it to Him for them.
Dodger (2012)
He could, though, just make out a miniature replica of Cori Celesti, upon whose utter peak the world’s quarrelsome and somewhat bourgeois gods lived in palace of marble, alabaster and uncut moquette three-piece suits they had chosen to call Dunmanifestin.
He was beginning to see a world that stretched far beyond the tunnels beneath the streets—a world that was filled with things he didn’t know. Things he hadn’t even known he didn’t know until now. Things he realized with a jolt that he wanted to know about.
Dodger (2012)