Lois McMaster Quotes

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Lois McMaster

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

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• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

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• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
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• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
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• I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Life
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• Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

  

  Jack London
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• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death...

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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• Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

  

  Billy Crystal
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• When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

  

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• One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping!

  

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• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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• I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society. You might think I'm off base, but every day around half the people in this country go out of their way to prove me right.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • People
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• Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Family
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• Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • Sin
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• Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Life
  • Men
  • Son