Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes about Heart

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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lying, Integrity, Heart

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Motivational, Heart, My Heart

Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.69, Baen Books

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

Life, Heart, Desire

"Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Kindness, Heart, Men