Words In The Heart Cannot Be Taken

iminthegrey:

My favorite character from the Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett. 

“There’s some magical creature called, ‘overtime,’ only no one’s even seen its footprints.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“We work as a team and we’re pretty much making it up as we go along, and half the time we’re not even certain what the law is, so it can get interesting.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“I was talking about policing, not alcohol. There’s lots of people willing to help you with the alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam and I’m a really suspicious bastard.’” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“The Watchman’s helmet isn’t like a crown. Even when you take it off, you’re still wearing it.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“That’s rumour for you. If we could modulate it with the truth, how useful it could be…” ~Commander Sir Samuel Vimes

“I’m worried and confused. So the first rule in the book is to spread it around.” ~Commander Sir Samuel Vimes

“Sometimes it would be nice to be wrong about people.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“No bloody flying newt sets fire to my city!…if anyone ever sets fire to this city, it’s going to be me!” ~Captain Samuel Vimes

“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten year’s time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.” ~The Captain Samuel Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness

“Funny how I never feel really alive until someone tries to kill me.” ~Captain Samuel Vimes

“Nine in the morning? What sort of time is that to get up? I don’t normally get up until the afternoon’s got the shine worn off!” ~Captain Samuel Vimes

“Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“Oh dear. Why did I wait until I was married to become strangely attractive to powerful women? Why didn’t it happen to me when I was sixteen? I could have done with it then.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“Dark sarcasm ought to be taught in schools.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“I’m going to make the stupid decision because I don’t want to look bad in front of myself. Try explaining that to anyone who hasn’t had a couple of drinks.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“…here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“When Mr. Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.” ~what Commander Samuel Vimes told Sergeant Detritus about Mister Safety Catch

“Don’t try to put me at my ease, Miss von Humpeding. It makes me nervous when people do that. It’s not as though I have any ease to be out at.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“Everyone wants something from Vimes, even though I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. [Tartarus], I’m probably a spoon.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“I don’t gallivant! I’ve never gallivanted. I don’t know how to vant! I don’t even have a galli!” ~Commander Samuel Vimes

“No, definitely no pocus. Possibly a little hocus.” ~Commander Samuel Vimes to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully

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Endless list of quotes and fictional characters ▶ James Moriarty & Sir Isaac Newton

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kromdizzle:

“The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is finding out how boring people really are.”
— Teferi, fourth-level student

“The question isn’t whether I can read minds. It’s whether I have yet to find a mind worth reading.”

— Ambassador Laquatus

heyoscarwilde:

You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I’ve ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Firefly characters illustrated by Ben Smith :: via etsy.com

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A moment for Minerva's sarcasm:

"Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their behaviour? Not at all. If a woman drinks to excess, then falls over in the street, loses her wallet and vomits all over her shirt, she has only herself to blame. But rape is not a consequence of getting drunk. It’s a consequence of a man deciding to rape someone."

Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity. (via starsgowaltzing)

Go OFF Mama!!!!

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doctorwho:

Moms of Who Weekend

Part of a series celebrating Mothers in the Whoniverse. Happy Mother’s Day!

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People abuse you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from busses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They’re on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are the advertisers and they are laughing at you.

However, you are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they want with impunity.

Screw that. Any advert in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you want with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

Banksey, Wall and Piece

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Dear Ophelia, I know that he is dead,
But what he told me last night, lays on me like lead
In the orchard he lay sleeping, that’s why he didn’t hear
His brother crept up and poured poison in his ear

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem."

Howard Zinn (via wetbehindthears)

"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle."

Dalai Lama (via themarchio)

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"In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher."

Dalai Lama (via themarchio)

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