Orson Scott Card Quotes

It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.

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• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Security

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Day

• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Together
  • Lost
  • Serious

• I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Office
  • Higher

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Harmony

• We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Government
  • Religious
  • Democratic

• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
  • Order

• Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Hours
  • Shots
  • Sketch

• Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Freedom
  • Language
  • Countries

• It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Proud

• We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Random

• Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Children

• They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,Creeping with little satchels down the street,And they remember, many years ago,Passing that way in silks. They wander, slowAnd solitary, through the city ways,And they alone remember those old daysMen have forgotten.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Remember
  • City
  • Alone

• Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Believe
  • Character

• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Success
  • Words
  • Destiny

• Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Knowledge
  • Possibility
  • Discovery

• I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Theater
  • Performances
  • Paid

• It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.

  

  Orson Scott Card