Nation Terry Pratchett Quotes & Sayings

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe! — Terry Pratchett

So this book, while continuing the Psy-Changeling storyline - because nothing is ever static in this world - is also a walk through the interconnected lives of many of the characters who've become important to us over the past books and novellas. With — Nalini Singh

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. — Mary Harris Jones

The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success. — Debasish Mridha

Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards. — Terry Pratchett

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market. — John Taylor Gatto

You happened to find the Tezumen one day and decided, I think I recall your words correctly, that they were 'a bunch of Stone-Age no-hopers sitting around in a swamp being no trouble to anyone', am I right? Whereupon you entered the mind of one of their high priests - I believe at that time they worshipped a small stick - drove him insane and inspired the tribes to unite, terrorise their neighbours and bring forth upon the continent a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men should be taken to the top of ceremonial pyramids and be chopped up with stone knives." The King pulled his notes towards him. "Oh yes, some of them were also to be flayed alive," he added. Quezovercoatl — Terry Pratchett

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime. — Terry Pratchett

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul. — Terry Pratchett

Primitive does not mean stupid. — Albie Sachs

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being. — Hugh Prather

My arithmetic is fine, thank you, Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence. — Judith Tarr

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea. — Terry Pratchett

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation. — Terry Pratchett

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane? — Terry Pratchett