Orson Scott Card Quotes

Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.

Orson Scott Card

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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Individual

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Alone

• Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Wise
  • Stupid

• Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Opinion
  • Path

• The outbreak of a socialist revolution in one country will cause the others to imitate it or so to strengthen the proletariat as to prevent its national bourgeoisie from attempting any armed intervention.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Country
  • Revolution

• That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Tea

• My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

  

  Bob Dole
  • People

• I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • For Her
  • Lifetime
  • Ages

• Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Advantage
  • Calculations

• As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

  

  Jaime Winstone

• Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty about future prospects.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Business
  • Future
  • Sales

• Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.

  

  Orson Scott Card