Lois McMaster Quotes

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

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• Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

  

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• I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

  

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• The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

  

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• In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

  

  Mike Tyson
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• There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

  

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• But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.

  

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• An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Action
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• When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
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• The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Hook
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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Fishes
  • Hook

• America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • America
  • Gay

• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • River
  • Reeds
  • Scurrying

• The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Hook
  • Embedded