Terry Pratchett Quotes About Balance

Quotes about: Balance

• Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

  Terry Pratchett

  Pain, Balance, Firsts

• All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Expression, Bird

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

• You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Dragons, Law

• But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balance, Matter, Normal

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.122, Random House

• It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Men, Ideas

• What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Blow, Knowing

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

• The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balance, Four, Persuasion

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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