Orson Scott Card Quotes

I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.

Orson Scott Card

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• Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Problems

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Today

• I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Think
  • Parents

• Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Mother
  • Name
  • Lunch

• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Happy
  • You
  • Be Happy

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication
  • Qualities

• I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Up
  • World
  • Son

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Friend

• I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Kids
  • High
  • Hands

• I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Always
  • Film
  • Go

• I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • New York
  • Looking Back

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Society
  • Alone

• I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

  

  Janel Moloney
  • Family
  • Done
  • Star

• Icons, windows, mice, big operating systems, huge programs, integrated packages.... I would like to remind the world that just because two things are on the same menu doesn't mean they taste good together.

  

  Jef Raskin
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Love
  • Force

• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

  

  John Oliver
  • Heart

• I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.

  

  Orson Scott Card