As Quoted In The Pioneers Quotes & Sayings

He quite liked the wizards. They didn't commit crimes. Not Vimes's type of crimes, anyway. The occult wasn't Vimes's beat. The wizards might well mess up the very fabric of time and space but they didn't lead to paperwork, and that was fine by Vimes. There — Terry Pratchett

That was when my hard persona cracked and shattered into pieces. My hands shook as I wiped away all of the tears streaming down my face. The hysteria that I'd held in all night fled my body. — Kenya Wright

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. — Oliver Sacks

I would steal horses
for you, if there were any left — Sherman Alexie

I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow. — Charlie Adam

Special Assistant Agent in Charge
Lang."
He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again.
"Just 'Mr Lang' is fine. — Roxanne St. Claire

Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. — John Barrasso

All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II — James Fenimore Cooper

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't. — Kirsten Gillibrand

Truly Virgil was right: love was a form of sickness. It altered people, made them behave in strange and irrational ways. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

Truth is more than a mental exercise. — Thurgood Marshall

If you are ungrateful for one blessing,
you will not be grateful for two.
If you are ungrateful for two blessings,
you will not be grateful for three.
If you are grateful for one blessing,
you will be grateful for innumerable. — Matshona Dhliwayo

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick. — Mark Vonnegut

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its clever prose reminiscent of other clever prose, then the compass needle is slipping away from true north ... When, on the other hand, the author renounces some easy twist, some expected payoff, to take us into territory we didn't expect but that nevertheless fits with the drift of the story, then the novel gains force and conviction. And when he or she does it again, telling quite a different story that is nevertheless driven by the same urgent tensions, then we are likely moving into the zone of authenticity. — Tim Parks