Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 15

Eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Three cheers for literacy... I feel sick. View quote
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It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life. View quote
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Some fellows you have to hit with a brick to get their attention. Some you have to hit with a BIG brick. View quote
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Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know. View quote
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Live, and so confound our enemies. View quote
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Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it. View quote
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Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home. View quote
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The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. View quote
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Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners. View quote
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His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats. View quote
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I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, "Am I crazy? Am I crazy?" View quote
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For her, this was a metaphor, he reminded himself. Though maybe he was a metaphor too, inside his head with the Black Gang. A metaphor gone metastatic. View quote
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Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door. View quote
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Miles cursed himself silently, then out loud. He really had to try to cultivate a more normal attitude toward senior officers.... When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a god-like being, not a, a... future subordinate. View quote
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Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts. View quote
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"Let's see what happens." Yes, let's. View quote
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I thought they'd never fall asleep." Ivan paused; a slow smirk displaced the snarl on his face. "But they were smiling, when they finally did. View quote
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Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you... View quote
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Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place? (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Strange mercies, Illyan. You kill me so courteously. View quote
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Peace to you, small lady. You've won a twisted poor modern knight, to wear your favor on his sleeve. But it's a twisted poor world we were both born into, that rejects us without mercy and ejects us without consultation. But at least I won't just tilt at windmills for you. I'll send in sappers to mine the twirling suckers and blow them into the sky. He knew who he served now. And why he could not quit. And why he must not fail. View quote
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Confusion to the enemy. View quote
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I smell diplomacy. View quote
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