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- His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
- I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
- Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
- Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
- I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
- Martha Stewart, in McCall's
- Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
- Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
- The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
- Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
- Mary Hirsch
- May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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