“Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold , A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defe…" by Lois McMaster Bujold?
Lois McMaster Bujold photo
Lois McMaster Bujold 383
Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

Related quotes

Lanxi Daolong photo

“Thirty years and more
I worked to nullify myself.
Now I leap the leap of death.
The ground churns up
The skies spin round.”

Lanxi Daolong (1213–1278) Buddhist monk

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; Cited in: Eugene Thacker. " Black Illumination: Zen and the poetry of death https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/07/02/books/black-illumination-zen-poetry-death/#.Wy4PIqczZEY," Special to the JAPAN TIMES, July 2, 2016.

Dejan Stojanovic photo

“Pretense cannot sustain blind power.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Reality http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reality-168/
From the poems written in English

Zig Ziglar photo

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Noel Gallagher photo

“I don't believe that anybody / Feels the way I do / About you now
All the roads that lead you there are winding / And all the lights that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you / But I don't know how.
Maybe / You're gonna be the one that saves me”

Noel Gallagher (1967) British musician

Wonderwall
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

Augusta Savage photo

“I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since.”

Augusta Savage (1892–1962) American sculptor

On the trajectory of her life and career in “Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students” https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/740459875/sculptor-augusta-savage-said-her-legacy-was-the-work-of-her-students in NPR (2019 Jul 15)

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“It is light that defeats the dark.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7 (Ged)

Courtney Love photo

“You should've loved me baby
When redemption's too blind
Nature took my soul
And sin left a scar so wide
Time ravaged my body
And now I live in the house
Where the red light's always on”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

"Life Despite God"
Song lyrics, America's Sweetheart (2004)

John Newton photo

“Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.”

John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer

Variant: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Source: Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace

Anne Rice photo

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer
Wendell Berry photo

“I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

"The Peace of Wild Things" in Green River Review, No. 1 (1968)

Related topics