Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes (52 quotations)
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1. ...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. - Lois McMaster Bujold
2. A good friend of my son's is a son to me. - Lois McMaster Bujold
3. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. - Lois McMaster Bujold
4. A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. - Lois McMaster Bujold
5. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. - Lois McMaster Bujold
6. 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. - Lois McMaster Bujold
7. Adversity does teach who your real friends are. - Lois McMaster Bujold
8. All true wealth is biological. - Lois McMaster Bujold
9. An honor is not diminished for being shared. - Lois McMaster Bujold
10. Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold
11. But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? - Lois McMaster Bujold
12. By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster Bujold
13. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. - Lois McMaster Bujold
14. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
15. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. - Lois McMaster Bujold
16. Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. - Lois McMaster Bujold
17. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. - Lois McMaster Bujold
18. His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
19. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. - Lois McMaster Bujold
20. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold
21. I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased. - Lois McMaster Bujold
22. I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. - Lois McMaster Bujold
23. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. - Lois McMaster Bujold
24. If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? - Lois McMaster Bujold
25. If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? - Lois McMaster Bujold
2. A good friend of my son's is a son to me. - Lois McMaster Bujold
3. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. - Lois McMaster Bujold
4. A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. - Lois McMaster Bujold
5. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. - Lois McMaster Bujold
6. 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. - Lois McMaster Bujold
7. Adversity does teach who your real friends are. - Lois McMaster Bujold
8. All true wealth is biological. - Lois McMaster Bujold
9. An honor is not diminished for being shared. - Lois McMaster Bujold
10. Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold
11. But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? - Lois McMaster Bujold
12. By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster Bujold
13. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. - Lois McMaster Bujold
14. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
15. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. - Lois McMaster Bujold
16. Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. - Lois McMaster Bujold
17. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. - Lois McMaster Bujold
18. His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
19. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. - Lois McMaster Bujold
20. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold
21. I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased. - Lois McMaster Bujold
22. I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. - Lois McMaster Bujold
23. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. - Lois McMaster Bujold
24. If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? - Lois McMaster Bujold
25. If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? - Lois McMaster Bujold
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