Shards Of Honour Quotes

#1. Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."
He grinned. "Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia."
"I stand corrected," she said dryly.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.

Billy Graham

#5. Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Are you sure this isn't instant boots? asked Cordelia sadly, for in color, taste, and smell they closely resembled pulverized shoe leather pressed into wafers.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

Carrie Fisher

#8. Incidentally, if you really think organic means pure, then you're in for a helluva heartbreak. Organic farms do use pesticides and, as reported by Brian Palmer in Slate, organic wine needs eighty times more fertilizer than conventional vino.

Greg Gutfeld

#9. Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#10. On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#11. Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Edward Young