Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Athlete, Destiny, Artist

  "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Civilization, Energy, Useless

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