Quote:
Lamp kaže:
Nikad se ne zna.
(Mali Princ, Saint-Exupery)
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moja sestra je svojedobno triput pročitala malog princa ne bi li našla gdje on to kaže.
nije našla.
u međuvremenu joj je to svejedno postala najdraža knjiga (valjda jedna od rijetkih koje je pročitala više od dvaput), ali i danas se ljuti na rečenicu "što bi rekao mali princ - nikad se ne zna."
porijeklo te fore mi je nepoznato, doduše.
neke od meni vrlo dragih rečenica (sve od bujoldice, doduše - ne da mi se tipkati, a quote generator mi je pod mišem):
"Damn! Captain Negri was right," said Illyan.
"He usually is--what was the instance?"
"He said that permitting private judgements to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant--that the consequences would very soon get beyond me."
Illyan worried about split loyalties
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor)
"But I've always thought--tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
Cordelia's view when Aral is offered the Regency
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor)
"--don't be afraid of troubles, Silver. They're a sign of life. We'll deal with them together--tomorrow."
Leo makes a promise
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free)
"The key of strategy , little Vor," she explained kindly, "is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory."
Cavilo explains her strategy to Miles
(Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game)
"All true wealth is biological."
Aral, on the importance of family
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance)
"I merely note, if you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way."
Miles on technique
(Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Mountains of Mourning")
"I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing
with pain by a stategy that annoys the people around him."
Mark tries to explain himself to Bothari-Jesek
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance)
He drank. It was perfectly ordinary water, lukewarm, faintly redolent of chlorine and sulfur. A refined body, but the bouquet is a bit presumptuous....
Drinking, after a beating, on Dagoola IV
(Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Borders of Infinity")
Miles shoved past him with a shouted reminder--"You're supposed to be yelling Get in line!, NOT Get fucked!... The signal always gets degraded in combat," he muttered to himself. "Always..."
While organising the first food pile distribution
(Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Borders of Infinity")
"The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in the future are imaginary. the ones they commit in the present--they are real."
Aral is hag-ridden prior to the invasion of Escobar
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor)
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
From a Vorkosigan military text
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance)
"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"
Cordelia talking Kou into talking to Drou
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar)
"I'll carry the wench off," he muttered, experimentally dropping his voice half an octave, "and lock her in my dungeon." His voice returned to its normal pitch with a regretful sigh. "Except I haven't got a dungeon. It would have to be the closet. Grandfather's right, we are a reduced generation."
Miles ponders the difficulties of villany.
(Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice)
"Now what, Leo? I'm busy. Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
And those who can't teach, Leo finished silently, go into administration.
Van Atta is not please to see Leo Graf
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free)
"The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Miles Vorkosigan
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory)