Orson Scott Card Quotes

'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'

Orson Scott Card

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

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• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

  

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  

  Tara Brach
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  • Beauty

• On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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  • Bread
  • Loaf

• 要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。

  

  Mao Zedong

• The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Growing

• When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Environment

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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  • Men
  • Moving

• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.

  

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  • Today

• There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Drunk
  • Anonymous

• There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Space

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Music
  • Gentleman

• I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Gentleman

• 'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Gentleman