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Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance.
— Cherie Priest
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.
— Terry Pratchett
I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.
— Brandon Sanderson
What's the orbital velocity of the moon?
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes nodded glumly. It was amazing how many people were prepared to do business with a man they'd met in a pub.
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.
— Terry Pratchett
I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.
— Bipasha Basu
There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes could never get a handle on politics, which was full of traps for honest men.
— Terry Pratchett
That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.
— Terry Pratchett
But we don't do things like that!" said Vimes. "You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!
— Terry Pratchett
I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo. "I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try? — Terry Pratchett
Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an orderSam Vimes — Terry Pratchett
You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian.
— Robert A. Heinlein
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
— Terry Pratchett
Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting
— Terry Pratchett
Gods, it felt good. Hot water was civilization. Vimes could feel the stiffness in his muscles melting away in the warmth.
— Terry Pratchett
Walk slowly through the world and pay attention
— Marty Rubin
And now, Vimes thought, it ends.
— Terry Pratchett
Everyone wants something from Vimes, even though I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Hell, I'm probably a spoon.
— Terry Pratchett
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
— Shirley Hazzard
He could solve this, Vimes told himself. Everything he needed was there, if only he asked the right questions and thought the right way. But
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes awoke with a noseful of camel. There are far worse awakenings, but not as many as you might think.
— Terry Pratchett
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
— Terry Pratchett
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
— Douglas William Jerrold
Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch.
— Terry Pratchett
I notice it says on your tray, 'Dibbler Enterprises, Est,'" said Vimes. "Shouldn't it say when you were established?
— Terry Pratchett
And who else could I send? Only Vimes could go to Uberwald.
— Terry Pratchett
I'm not a criminal madman,' said Vimes. ( ... )'Never mind, you'll soon fit in,' said Lawn. — Terry Pratchett
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategythat eluded him at the moment. — Terry Pratchett
What are your duties?" said Vimes. "To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock, Sir," said Dorfl.
— Terry Pratchett
Yes, yes, yes, said Vimes, who could recognize the verbal foot getting ready to stick itself in the aural door.
— Terry Pratchett
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.
— Dashiell Hammett
I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
— Terry Pratchett
