Vor Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The Emperor's Birthday is the traditional end of the fiscal year, for each count's district in relation to the Imperial government. In other words, it's tax day, except - the Vor are not taxed. That would imply too subordinate a relationship to the Imperium. Instead, we give the Emperor a present.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Brian Herbert

#4. She turned for her kitchen, mentally revising her planned family dinner to include a Vor lord from the Imperial capital. White wine? Her limited experience of the breed suggested that if you could get them sufficiently sloshed, it wouldn't matter what you fed them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. I am the pinnacle of humanity - a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.

Brian Herbert

#6. Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.

Brian Herbert

#7. - all I can say of the matter, is - That he has either a pumkin for his head - or a pippin for his heart, - and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.

Laurence Sterne

#8. I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

Daniela Bobadilla

#9. There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.

Farahad Zama

#10. These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.' The

Martin Cruz Smith

#11. I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Criss Jami

#12. Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

Gail Carriger

#13. Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#14. He holds his hand out for me to see it like he's cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

Eda J. Vor

#15. But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

Barry Lyga

#16. Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.

Amy Carmichael

#18. Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

Eda J. Vor

#19. There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.

Bob Dylan