33 Quotes by S.M. Stirling

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

Love isn’t like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Words mean what they’re generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for the first time, he called it “awful, pompous, and artificial.” Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Many are the marvels of God’s Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.