Top 100 Quotes About Lois
#1. I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#3. I've always thought 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
#4. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#5. Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
Lois Lowry
#6. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#8. Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.
Lois P Frankel
#9. No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?"
"Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation."
"Poor lambs."
"That's not how I'd describe them."
"I was thinking of animal sacrifice."
"Ah. That's closer.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#12. I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
George Lois
#13. Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink.
Lois Greiman
#14. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
Lois Lowry
#15. You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.
George Lois
#16. Evil can do anything, for a price.
Lois Lowry
#17. About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.
Lois Tilton
#18. There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.
Lois Greiman
#19. 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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#20. When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
Lois Greiman
#21. Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#22. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
Lois Wyse
#24. The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.
Gwenda Bond
#26. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
Lois Lowry
#27. My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.
Gwenda Bond
#28. To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.
Lois Lowry
#31. Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)
Lois McMaster Bujold
#33. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#34. Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.
Lois Lowry
#35. Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#36. I don't trust nobody that don't have my name tattooed on her ass, and then it's iffy.
Lois Greiman
#37. I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.
Lois Lowry
#38. Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too.
Lois Greiman
#39. Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.
Lois Greiman
#40. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
Lois Lowry
#41. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#42. Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.
Lois Capps
#43. Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.
George Lois
#44. The problem has just suddenly become a lot more interesting. Er, difficult. It's just become a bit more difficult.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#45. So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Lois Lowry
#46. Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.
Gwenda Bond
#47. Memory is the happiness of being alone.
Lois Lowry
#48. The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#49. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
Lois Lowry
#51. I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.
Lois Capps
#52. There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.
Lois Greiman
#53. Hearts understand in ways our minds cannot.
Lois W.
#54. Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#55. I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.
George Lois
#57. Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Lois Wyse
#58. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
Lois Lowry
#59. A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.
Lois Ehlert
#60. How much easier it is to be poor than rich.
Lois Leveen
#61. Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.
Lois Greiman
#62. No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler -
Lois Lowry
#64. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
Lois Lowry
#66. [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#67. The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
Lois Lowry
#68. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
Lois Lowry
#69. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One
Lois Lowry
#71. Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say
Lois Lancaster
#72. My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
Margot Kidder
#73. A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry
even if he is at a convenient height for it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#74. I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#75. Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#76. Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.
Lois Duncan
#77. I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.
George Lois
#78. Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#79. Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods."
"Do you?"
"I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#80. That last gallop had flayed her raw skin to shreds. "Saddle sores. Trivial hurts, for all that they are mine." His brows rose. "What do you call severe, then?" She staggered away past the beheaded commander. "That.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#81. If you put pussy willows in water, they'll blossom and then die. Just put them in the vase alone, and they'll stay beautiful forever.
Lois Lowry
#82. It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#83. It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.
Lois Greiman
#85. Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#86. Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
#88. There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
Lois Lowry
#89. If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#90. They can't help it. They know nothing
Lois Lowry
#91. And apples were always, always red.
Lois Lowry
#92. I like being right smack in the middle.
Lois Lowry
#93. Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.
Lois Gould
#94. It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.
Lois Lowry
#95. I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.
Lois Greiman
#96. 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
#97. She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia
Lois McMaster Bujold
#98. Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease - that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#99. Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
Lois Lowry
#100. When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?
Lois Lowry
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