Orson Scott Card Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I
I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.
But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.
Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer.
Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.
When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men.
Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.
Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing.
I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.
Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction.
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction.
As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But
[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character?
I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.
And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.
... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.