Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes - Page 2

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• There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Soul, Feelings

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

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  Eyebrows, Differences, Long

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.41, Baen Books

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• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

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  Engineering, Finals, Steps

  "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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• In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

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  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

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• Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

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  Momentum, Way, Strategy

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books

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• He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

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  Too Short

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• Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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  Understanding, Action

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

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  Jobs, People, World

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.90, gfdg hfdhdg

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• Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

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  Revenge, Past, Reaching

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.25, Baen Books

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• If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

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  Friendship, People, Resistance

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.49, Baen Books

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• Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

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  Possible Change, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.371, Baen Books

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• All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

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  Genius, Matter, Mets

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.23, Baen Books

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• We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

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  Beautiful, Taken, Reflection

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.132, Baen Books

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• If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

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  Honesty, Doe, Ifs

  "Diplomatic Immunity". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2002.

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• My home is not a place, it is people.

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  Life, Home, People

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

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  Integrity, Love Life, Caught

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

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  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

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  Pain, Thinking, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.444, Baen Books

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• If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

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  Power, Weakness, Illusion

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

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  Revenge, Bags, Phrases

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.140, gfdg hfdhdg

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

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  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

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  Feelings, Serendipity, Target

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.390, Baen Books

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• The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

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  Company You Keep, Differences, Heaven

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

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  Real, Destiny, Blood

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• Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

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  Grief, Doe, Weapons

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