Vorkosigans Rule Quotes & Sayings

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that. — Darren Shan

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace. — Alice Hegan Rice

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday. — George R R Martin

There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land]. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He thought: Oh, I have fed on honey-dew. On wine and whiskey and champagne and the tender white meat of women and fine clothes and the respect of strong men and the fear of weak and the turn of a card and good horses and the crisp of greenbacks and the cool of mornings and all the elbow room that God or man could ask for. I have had high times. But the best times of all were afterward, just afterward, with the gun warm in my hand, the bite of smoke in my nose, the taste of death on my tongue, my heart high in my gullet, the danger past, and then the sweat, suddenly, and the nothingness, and the sweet clean feel of being born. — Glendon Swarthout

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl. — Reese Witherspoon

I hope that I have a body of work by the time that I'm done with all of this that I'm proud of. Certainly the cornerstone will always be Wonder Woman and I love her. — Lynda Carter

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit. — Ring Lardner Jr.