Lois McMaster Quotes

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Lois McMaster

• Fate

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• My goal is to always be improving my skills.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Skills

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Family
  • Together

• When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Help
  • Think
  • Doing

• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Men
  • Real

• Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.

  

  Ovid

• 'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Nice

• I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.

  

  Anna Sui

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

  

  William Feather
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Healing

• Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

  

  John Calvin
  • Death
  • Consider
  • School Of Christ

• New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
  • May
  • Today

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Fate
  • Littles
  • Circumstances

• I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Fate