Vorkosigan's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. All true wealth is biological (Aral Vorkosigan)

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. It's having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable.

A. Lynn

#7. 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

#8. Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#9. As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#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

#15. In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Donald Trump

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#22. One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#23. If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Play hard or don't play at all.

Robin S. Sharma

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#30. 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

#31. We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.

Akiane Kramarik