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- How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- 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
- The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
- Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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