Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 11

If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Oh, fine new friends you have-until They betray you. If the gods toy with you, cousin, it is for Their ends, not yours. View quote
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Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction. View quote
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Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time. View quote
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It is not, you know, that you lie well, cousin. It's merely that no one is foolhardy enough to call you on it. This may have given you an inflated idea of your skill at dissimulation. View quote
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It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth. View quote
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And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady? View quote
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I saw no reason to stop my life for other people's theories. View quote
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Those who are unwilling to admit error are fated to repeat it? View quote
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Indifference served him quite as well as integrity. View quote
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It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn't take high tech. View quote
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Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith. View quote
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Let me tell you, young man-the dirty little secret of democracy is that just because you get a vote, doesn't mean you get your choice. View quote
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Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me. Sadly, it wasn't even a record. View quote
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One maneuvers to the limit, but the golden moment demands action. If you miss it, the gods damn you forever. and vice versa. View quote
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Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity. View quote
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By far the most dangerous animal on the planet was an invasive species of ape. View quote
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Babies are just a challenge. Teenagers are a nightmare. View quote
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Taste the betrayal of the gods, then; I have dined on it for ages. View quote
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But even the gods cannot see infinitely far ahead. Our free wills cloud Their vision, even though Their eyes are more piercing than ours. The gods do not plan, so much as take advantage. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
I learned long ago not to exhaust myself grappling problems that time will carry away on its tide. View quote
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So much of the uncanny-or the holy, for that matter-is inward experience. As such, testimony about it tends to be tainted. People lie. People delude themselves, or others. People are swayed or frightened or convinced they have seen things they have not. People are, frankly, sometimes simply mad. View quote
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I do not know where I am going. But I am quite weary enough of where I've been. View quote
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All sorts of men had the capacity to kill for the convenience of their betters; though usually, the only spell required could be fitted in a clinking purse. View quote
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