52 Quotations by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1. A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- 2. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did ...
- 3. A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo ...
- 4. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
- 5. Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to ...
- 6. Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- 7. All true wealth is biological.
- 8. An honor is not diminished for being shared.
- 9. Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
- 10. But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa ...
- 11. By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and th ...
- 12. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio ...
- 13. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it ...
- 14. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
- 15. Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ...
- 16. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
- 17. His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh ...
- 18. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski ...
- 19. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w ...
- 20. I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
Lois Mcmaster Bujold Quotes by Power Quotations
|