335 quotes
The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
Enchantment (1999)
The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
Homebody (1998)
Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
Earthborn (1995)
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
Treason (1988)
How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
The Memory Of Earth (1992)
She got out of the car in a smooth motion that [he] found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
Homebody (1998)
She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
Homebody (1998)
He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
Songmaster (1979)
You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
Stone Tables (1997)
More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
Enchantment (1999)
How short life is for fools.
The Crystal City (2003)
That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
Earthborn (1995)
Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
Treason (1988)
May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.
Earthfall (1995)
He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
Earthborn (1995)
I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
Treason (1988)
I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
Earthfall (1995)