Orson Scott Card Quotes

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

Orson Scott Card

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• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Feist
  • Know
  • Saying
  • Opinions

• An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Soul

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

  

  Oliver North
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • War

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Plain
  • Gimmick

• I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Way
  • Top
  • Wacky

• If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Successful
  • Drug
  • Year

• I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Inspiration
  • Head

• More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • Power
  • Success
  • Man

• People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • People
  • Age
  • Myself

• I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Day
  • Try
  • Half

• Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • People
  • Success
  • Society

• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Find Yourself

• Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes,p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Believe
  • Different

• For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Path

• I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Lost

• I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Political

• India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Good
  • Book
  • Food

• There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

  

  Orson Scott Card