Lois McMaster Quotes

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
  • Started
  • Shell

• I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Peace

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Stop

• I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Like
  • Look
  • Glamour

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Simple

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Tarzan of the Apes knew that they had found the body of his victim, but that interested him far less than the fact that no one remained in the village to prevent his taking a supply of the arrows which lay below him.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Thoughts

• Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People

• The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Live

• I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Rest
  • Trading
  • Viewed

• Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Book
  • Library
  • Admirable

• On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Power
  • Force
  • Craft

• Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Opinion
  • Force
  • Pages