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Other Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 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,…
- Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that…
- 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…
- This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was…
- One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
- People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such…
- 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…
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
- Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour