No, no, never send interim reports," said Miles. "Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit or...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I know my limits." "No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramm...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfor...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum.
"Neither should men, in my opinio...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you wer...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoist...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by pru...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all thei...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my fath...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been a...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD An honor is not diminished for being shared.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore....
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing devi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers a...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep."
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst poss...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great onc...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection....
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD What you are is a question only you can answer.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't tr...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better o...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Our children change us... whether they live or not.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My home is not a place, it is people.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD . . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You kill me so courteously
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?"
"Yes. Sorry," he wh...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD (Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your hear...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something usele...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Are you sure this isn't instant boots?" asked Cordelia sadly, for in color, taste, and smell they cl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with gro...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."<...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we t...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and th...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real com...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and root...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Ekaterin glanced back over her shoulder. “He didn’t look very well this morning, Pym. You really...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Of course, compared to Serg, Tien wasn’t much worse than foolish and venal. But it was hard to wat...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Lately, I have come to believe that the principal difference between heaven and hell is the company ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The fricti...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."
She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get resu...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Pym looked at the bugs, glanced at the sleeve of his proud uniform, stared again at the deadly parod...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstand...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about
yourself... Guard ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? "Mother, Father, let m...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.

The m...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Pym!" The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. "I seconded you to l...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Dear Madam Vorsoisson, I am sorry.
This is the eleventh draft of this letter. They’ve all sta...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes st...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring p...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Whatever you're thinking of. Just don't. I don't want anything to do with it."
"What I was abou...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless b...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize o...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You cannot outguess the gods. Hold to virtue—if you can identify it—and trust that the duty set ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the rin...
MANDY BUJOLD Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are c...
MANDY BUJOLD I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes...
MANDY BUJOLD One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing,...
MANDY BUJOLD I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror...
MANDY BUJOLD I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it an...
MANDY BUJOLD The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time wo...
MANDY BUJOLD There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal...
MANDY BUJOLD Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
MANDY BUJOLD Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I p...
MANDY BUJOLD Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
MANDY BUJOLD No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ...
MANDY BUJOLD I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions a...
MANDY BUJOLD The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. Y...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make f...
ART MCMASTER We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.
ART MCMASTER the pageant's continued vitality and growth.
ART MCMASTER Atlanta is a nice city, ... I'm sure they would have the facilities.
ART MCMASTER She is really influenced by mass media Hollywood. A lot of her works include drawings of celebrities...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER [Pageant officials thanked the Atlantic City community for its longstanding support of the pageant.]...
ART MCMASTER The decision to leave the longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful deliberati...
ART MCMASTER I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.
BEC MCMASTER What we wanted to do is find a new host city that has all glitz and glamour Miss America is known fo...
ART MCMASTER What we wanted to do is find a new host city that has all glitz and glamour Miss America is known fo...
ART MCMASTER It was a strictly financial decision. The revenues just aren't there anymore. People think we wanted...
ART MCMASTER There's really one major difference between this tax return and last year's, and that is the differe...
ART MCMASTER We're trying to promote these young ladies as tomorrow's leaders. We're going to push scholastic ach...
ART MCMASTER The days of big money are gone, and the days of big-money production companies are gone. The big mon...
ART MCMASTER We've received four unsolicited calls today. They want to start talking. They want to talk about the...
ART MCMASTER We needed to find a better partner, one that better understands our values. CMT's audience is the he...
ART MCMASTER The decision to leave the pageant's longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful ...
ART MCMASTER She's very smart. She is pretty sharp. She's really concerned about people. She has a hilarious sens...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER Once we reach Las Vegas the game faces come on.
ART MCMASTER He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life t...
BRIAN MCMASTER A number of major artists said they'd like to be part of my last festival and it was an offer I coul...
BRIAN MCMASTER When I hear a little about something like this, I want to get the whole story. Joe was one of the bi...
GARY MCMASTER Most of the World War II veterans are in their 80s now, and many are dying. Their families are putti...
GARY MCMASTER I think what we saw today was the effect of our counterinsurgency and security operations in Tall Af...
HR MCMASTER A couple of months ago, they might not have been able to pull it together after something like that....
HR MCMASTER Is there enough force here right now to secure this area permanently? No. Are there opportunities fo...
HR MCMASTER