If Ruby had learned anything in Holy Wood, it was that there was no use in waiting around for Mr Right to hit you with a brick. You had to make your own bricks. (MP)
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She smiled at him.
And then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. She couldn’t do worse, but then, he couldn’t do better. So maybe it balanced out. She wasn’t getting any younger but then, who was? And she had style and money and common-sense and self-assurance and all the things that he didn’t, and she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city. And eventually, under siege, you did what Ankh-Morpork had always done – unbar the gates, let the conquerors in, and make them your own. (GG) 'I’d like to know if I could compare you to a summer’s day. Because - well, June 12th was quite nice ...' (WS)
'I must say,’ he said, ‘you’re a real brick.’
‘You mean pink, square and dumpy? You really know how to talk to a girl, my boy.' (M) Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn’t realised that it could make you stupid. (M)
'... this may well have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common sense of, perhaps, the average chicken.' (MM)
+++Despite being wrong in every important respect, that is a very good analogy+++ (DW)
He wanted, intensely, to believe in a world where logic worked. It was a matter of faith. (TG)
Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (TOT)
‘…as you accumulate years, you will learn that most answers boil down, eventually, to “Because”.' (TOT)
'Questions don’t have to make sense, Vincent,’ said Miss Susan. ‘But answers do.' (TOT)
'I have absolute confidence in Mr da Quirm’s work, and I’m sure he has too.’
‘Oh, dear. No, I never bother to have any confidence,’said Leonard. ‘You don’t?’ ‘No, things just work. You don’t have to wish,’ said Leonard. ‘And, of course, if we do fail, then things won’t be that bad, will they? If we fail to come back, there won’t be anywhere left to fail to come back to in any case, will there? So it will all cancel out.’ He gave his happy little smile. ‘Logic is a great comfort in times like this, I always find.' (LH) ... everyone had been so dead set against any form of fire brigade, reasoning – with impeccable Ankh-Morpork logic – that any bunch of men who were paid to put out fires would naturally see to it that there was a plentiful supply of fires to put out. (TT)
When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all. (TT)
'Can you think of any reason why someone would kill him?’
The troll scratched his head. ‘Well, ‘cos dey wanted him dead, I reckon. Dat’s a good reason..' (FE) Logic is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t always beat actual thought. (LC)
Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense. (LC)
'Well, I think,’said Nobby, ‘that when you have ruled out the impossible, what is left, however improbable, ain’t worth
hanging around on a cold night wonderin’ about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.' (Ma) Not liking Christine would be like not liking small fluffy animals. And Christine was just like a small fluffy animal. It was certainly impossible for her to get a whole idea into her head in one go. She had to nibble it into manageable bits. (Ma)
Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone’s character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore –according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind – it should be possible to mould someone’s character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that’s the main thing. (MA)
Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice – i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn’t the world for it. (TC)
'…the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.' (SG)
Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. The Creator had a lot of remarkably good ideas when he put the world together, but making it understandable hadn’t been one of them. (M) He had the look of someone who could think his way through a corkscrew without bending ... (S)
He believed, against all experience, that the world was fundamentally understandable, and that if he could only equip himself with the right mental toolbox he could take the back off and see how it worked. He was, of course, dead wrong. (LF)
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