Mark Vorkosigan Quotes & Sayings

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

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. — Isaiah Berlin

The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us. — Andrew Murray

And the flavor of Pippa's kiss
bittersweet and strange
stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky. — Donna Tartt

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

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

For lunch, Tsipis led them to Hassadar's most exclusive locale - the official dining room of the Count's Residence, overlooking the Square. The remarkable spread which the staff laid on hinted that Miles had sent down a few urgent behind-the-scenes instructions for the care and feeding of his . . . gardener. Mark confirmed this after dessert when Kareen led Enrique and the widow off to see the garden and fountain in the Residence's inner courtyard, and he and Tsipis lingered over the exquisite vintage of Vorkosigan estate-bottled wine usually reserved for visits from Emperor Gregor. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way. — William Carlos Williams

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon. — Robert Lowell

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. — Fanny Burney

You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks. — Rick Riordan

In the world, there is no absolute good, and absolute evil. — Ali Altantawi

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about. — Meshell Ndegeocello

Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey. — Louis De Bernieres

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. — Helen Keller