Lois McMaster Quotes
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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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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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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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 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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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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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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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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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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.