Orson Scott Card Quotes

How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

Orson Scott Card

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Good
  • Light
  • Negative

• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
  • Courage
  • Body
  • Strength

• The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Kids
  • You
  • Down

• What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • Helping
  • Heritage

• We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Stars
  • Content

• When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Community

• Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Condition

• I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Hamlet

• No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Stand
  • Minds
  • Against

• I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Peace

• It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing-in addition to caring for man’s well-being-they were providing rights for themselves.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Giving
  • Caring

• History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • History
  • Words

• Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Responsibility

• I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Family
  • Heaven

• By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Supposed
  • Grown-Up

• There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Time

• How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

  

  Orson Scott Card