Top 40 Vorkosigan Quotes
#1. Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#2. 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
#4. There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.
- Miles Vorkosigan
Lois McMaster Bujold
#5. Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#6. Mark's ideas tended to the bland, and there was no point in asking Miles, whose embittered suggestions all ran to things like Vomit Vanilla and Cockroach Crunch. Vorkosigan
Lois McMaster Bujold
#7. I thought you saw meaning in that sort of thing," said Vorkosigan.
"In the abstract. Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. Although upon reflection, Jole wasn't sure of the advisability of introducing a keen young officer to Vorkosigan notions of initiative. Metaphors about fighting fire with gasoline rose to his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#9. One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#10. It was a curious insight into Vorkosigan that he should so automatically accept her bare word as binding; he evidently thought along the same lines himself. The
Lois McMaster Bujold
#11. In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#12. People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#13. Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
Ayn Rand
#14. 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
#16. Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.
Christine Caine
#17. Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you had to have a keen sense of humor to do sex and stay sane.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#18. Because Islam doesn't, he said, his voice toneless,
Hilary Mantel
#19. I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.
Richard DeVos
#20. Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#21. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
George W. Bush
#22. As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#24. If a book is well written, I will always find it too short.
Jane Austen
#25. Miles is ... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#26. Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self ... When acting, you're someone else.
Sabrina Carpenter
#27. Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.
Klaus H. Carl
#28. Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.
Lawren Leo
#29. One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's consciousness.
Paulo Freire
#30. Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#31. I apologise for my friend's rudeness, he just learned how to to walk upright last year.
R.L. Mathewson
#32. Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#34. A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.
Dan Poynter
#35. 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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#36. I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
Lawrence Durrell
#37. 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
#38. Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
Lois McMaster Bujold
#39. 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
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