Orson Scott Card Quotes
You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
Quotes to Explore
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
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When Clay Aiken comes to your town - GO! It is a spectacle. It is the gayest thing I have ever seen! Organisers of the Pride Fest in San Francisco are like 'We're fucked'!
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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
