254 quotes
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden’s virginity, while risking the maiden’s neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
Beauty (1991)
The prophets trusted no one. Trust had no part in the Cause.
Raising the Stones (1990)
Mr. Weathereye had always said that civility could not possibly be resented by any civilized person; that if resentment were offered, it was a sure sign of loutdom.
The Margarets (2007)
Earth had always operated on a continuous-growth model that requires a poverty class. Sustainable models require productive work by all members and are quite different.
The Margarets (2007)
Men, she thought, had always been able to seek holiness when they wanted to because some woman was back at home taking care of their obligations. That’s why most of the saints were men and why most of the women saints were virgins.
Sideshow (1992)
We had what we thought was the answer and we troubled to look no further.
Dervish Daughter (1986)
I know you want me to believe all this, but it seems little different from the religious stories we learned in school, esoteric and relatively pointless.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
That is a phrase I had never heard before, dear Benita. Playing politics. It is like playing war, a game for degenerates. Statesmen should not “play” politics.
The Fresco (2000)
Whoever…whatever had done this was an evil person, an evil thing, and she, Fringe, would have to do whatever she could to set matters right, diversity be damned!
Sideshow (1992)
Useless as a third leg on a goose.
Grass (1989)
The prophetess had declared it a sin to believe in absolute truths, but the Scrutators claimed that didn’t apply to religious truths, of which they had manufactured a good supply over the centuries.
Raising the Stones (1990)
They were betrayed, Oracle. Ganver tells me there is no anger greater than that of a zealot betrayed.
Jinian Star-Eye (1986)
“Sometimes I despair, Ellat. Will I ever be able to surprise you?”
“Yes. If you’d listen to me, ever, it would surprise me enormously.”
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988)
Afar, Legless God Orimar Breaze howled rage and resentment of this nonsense. There were only two classes of beings: adorers or persecutors.
Sideshow (1992)
Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes war and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about wisdom! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!
Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)
They looked like men. That was the trouble with devils, Carolyn thought. Too often they looked like men.
Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)
“Not hunting today, sir?” asked Tony in his most innocent voice, busy putting two and two together but not sure how he felt about the resultant sum.
Grass (1989)
As with other peoples who had focused their lives upon wrongs in the past and heaven in the future, Voorstod made an everlasting hell of the present.
Raising the Stones (1990)
“I don’t need you to believe. I can make you do what I say even if you don’t believe.” A sulky-sounding voice, this. “God doesn’t need to prove anything, not if god can make people do what god wants.”
Sideshow (1992)
Then, suddenly, I got old. Up until a year or two ago, I wasn’t…didn’t feel old at all.
Beauty (1991)