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Top 30 S.M. Stirling Quotes (2025 Update)

S.M. Stirling Quote: “Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.”

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

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior’s mind.”

2. “A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior’s mind.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Love isn’t like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.”

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

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Many are the marvels of God’s Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.”

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

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?”

5. “The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “I’m always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.”

6. “I’m always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Grief is the tribute we pay the dead,” she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. “But they don’t ask more than we can afford to give. They’ve never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they’re part of our story, and we of theirs.”

7. “Grief is the tribute we pay the dead,” she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. “But they don’t ask more than we can afford to give. They’ve never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they’re part of our story, and we of theirs.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

9. “There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “And the first king was a lucky soldier.”

10. “And the first king was a lucky soldier.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.”

11. “A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “It wasn’t taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change.”

12. “It wasn’t taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Nothing’s free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.”

13. “Nothing’s free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh?”

14. “Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh?”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you’re aware of the depths of your own ignorance.”

15. “Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you’re aware of the depths of your own ignorance.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Oh Powers of Earth and Sky, what is it that you’ve brought back, to run wild once more upon the ridge of the world?”

16. “Oh Powers of Earth and Sky, what is it that you’ve brought back, to run wild once more upon the ridge of the world?”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.”

17. “Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Like its elder sibling love, friendship was a set of obligations willingly assumed, truth and trust among them, not just a pleasure or a feeling. At least it was if you were to be a friend worth having.”

18. “Like its elder sibling love, friendship was a set of obligations willingly assumed, truth and trust among them, not just a pleasure or a feeling. At least it was if you were to be a friend worth having.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “I like you, Mike. I just wanted to know about you.” He grinned and finished building the fire. “OK, point taken, and I like you too, Juney. It was an RPG.” “Role-playing game?” she asked, bewildered, and saw him laugh aloud, his head thrown back – for the first time since they met, she realized. “Rocket Propelled Grenade,” he said.”

19. “I like you, Mike. I just wanted to know about you.” He grinned and finished building the fire. “OK, point taken, and I like you too, Juney. It was an RPG.” “Role-playing game?” she asked, bewildered, and saw him laugh aloud, his head thrown back – for the first time since they met, she realized. “Rocket Propelled Grenade,” he said.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.”

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

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.”

21. “You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”

22. “Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Black soil flew up in divots; the horses’ heads pounded up and down like pistons, and he felt a sensation of rushing speed no machine could quite match as the great muscles flexed and bunched between his legs. Havel.”

23. “Black soil flew up in divots; the horses’ heads pounded up and down like pistons, and he felt a sensation of rushing speed no machine could quite match as the great muscles flexed and bunched between his legs. Havel.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “And doesn’t everything die and return; the grass, the trees, the fields? Why not us?”

24. “And doesn’t everything die and return; the grass, the trees, the fields? Why not us?”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.”

25. “It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Strange, isn’t it, that it’s always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”

27. “Strange, isn’t it, that it’s always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Fear worked both ways – if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind.”

28. “Fear worked both ways – if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Children do make life more interesting, he thought.”

29. “Children do make life more interesting, he thought.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “To take life was to understand your own death – that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.”

30. “To take life was to understand your own death – that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.”

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S.M. Stirling Quote: “Grandchildren give most of the joys of parenthood and only a tenth the labor and pain.”

31. “Grandchildren give most of the joys of parenthood and only a tenth the labor and pain.”

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