Thibault Busschots > Thibault's Quotes

“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“She can’t possibly be evil, she’s adorable.”
― Eustacia Tan, Beauty's Daughter

“Luka—turn your wheel so I need not slay this woman!”
― A. Merritt, Dwellers in the Mirage

“It’s not fair that only the princess gets strong and healthy teeth, while the rest of us have to live with the pain of rot.”
― Eustacia Tan, The Goblin Apple

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight