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Quotes from Komarr — Lois McMaster Bujold

born 1949 United States

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29 quotes

Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.

Komarr (1998)

People complaining about their spouses always looked and sounded so ugly.

Komarr (1998)

If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.

Komarr (1998)

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment.

Komarr (1998)

To this day she didn’t know if he taken her disgusted refusal to defend herself for a covert admission of guilt.

Komarr (1998)

To get the right answer, one must first correctly frame the question.

Komarr (1998)

We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement.

Komarr (1998)

Just like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim’s a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.

Komarr (1998)

Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.

Komarr (1998)

He's not even a mad scientist. He's merely a very upset engineer.

Komarr (1998)

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which was was forward.

Komarr (1998)

The laws of physics took precedence over heroic intent for the next couple of seconds.

Komarr (1998)

She probably felt about matrimony the way Miles felt about needle-grenade launchers.

Komarr (1998)

He consoled himself with the reflection that it was seldom he found himself in company who made him feel this stupid. It was probably good for his soul.

Komarr (1998)

Cynicism did not seem nearly so impressively daring to her now as it had when she was twenty.

Komarr (1998)

At the moment I have very little evidence and lots of theories. I’m itching to reverse the proportions.

Komarr (1998)

I am not here to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals.

Komarr (1998)

What an obituary. 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.”

Komarr (1998)

Power corrupts, but we want energy.

Komarr (1998)

Love was long gone, in her. She got by on a starvation diet of loyalty these days.

Komarr (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lois McMaster Bujold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.