Lois McMaster Quotes
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.