"Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Dog Quotes #Trying Quotes #Dexterity Quotes

“When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it.”
“Poor me, poor me, pour me another.”
“Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.”
“I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.”
“Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.”
“She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!”
“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”
“They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.”

Source : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.”, p.213, Macmillan

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