Lois McMaster Quotes

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Lois McMaster

• World
• Mistake
• Feelings
• Stupid
• Ignorance
• Responsible

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• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Book

• What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Growing

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Opportunity
  • Blow
  • Operations

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance

• God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • May

• I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Men

• In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

  

  Austin Clarke
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Poetry

• Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • Perspective
  • Tree

• The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Feelings