Orson Scott Card Quotes

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

Orson Scott Card

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• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Good
  • Want

• Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Beliefs

• I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Being

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Soul

• When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

• I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Baby

• I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Rest

• Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Today
  • Respect

• You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Real
  • Power
  • Truth

• If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you guilty.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Truth
  • Guilty

• There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Life

• I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Action
  • Film
  • Able

• I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Acting
  • Fights
  • Choreography

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Song

• You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

  

  Orson Scott Card