Quote

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Collect
Later
Cutting
Universe
Around

More quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

Image
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
What you are is a question only you can answer.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
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
Image
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
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
Image
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
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
Image
Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
All true wealth is biological.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Image
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