Sir Samuel Vimes Quotes & Sayings

The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor. — Raheel Farooq

Leaders and managers appreciate it when employees take the initiative to offer help, build networks, gather new knowledge, and seek feedback. But there's one form of initiative that gets penalized: speaking up with suggestions. In one study across manufacturing, service, retail, and nonprofit settings, the more frequently employees voiced ideas and concerns upward, the less likely they were to receive raises and promotions over a two-year period. And — Adam M. Grant

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins. — Tim LaHaye

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember. — CL

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses. — Galina Nelson

On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together. — Emilio Rivera

A modest man never talks of himself. — Jean De La Bruyere

I believe you vere an alcoholic, Sir Samuel."
"No," said Vimes, completely taken aback, "I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to
be an alcoholic. — Terry Pratchett

Everything that has ever happened to me is still all with me. — Kate Christensen

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen. — Terry Pratchett

Thinking is not always ... comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. — Robin Hobb

Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who'd take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, "Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times," and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man's boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he'd been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience! — Terry Pratchett

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind. — Thubten Yeshe

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever. — Michael Nesmith

RON BRACKIN'S TEXAS GLOSSARY "Peccadello" n. roadkill. — Ron Brackin

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard