You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.'Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin.Vimes blinked at her.Pardon?' he said.It's wounded!'Lady, that was the intention, wasn't it? Anyway, it's only stunned,' said Vimes.I mean you can't let them kill it like ,' said Lady Ramkin insistently. 'Poor thing!'What do you want to do, then?' demanded Vimes, his temper unravelling. 'Give it a strengthening dose of tar oil and a nice comfy basket in front of the stove?'It's butchery!'Suits me fine!'But it's a dragon! It's just doing what a dragon does! It never would have come here if people had left it alone!'Vimes thought: it was about to eat her, and she can still think like this. He hesitated. Perhaps that give you the right to an opinion...

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

Thomas Carlyle

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intima

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Source Unknown

The universe is full of magical things to be manifested with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Kelly Clarkson

If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

Bradley Cooper

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Peter Scotese

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mahatma Gandhi

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Ella Maillart

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

George Bernard Shaw