Orson Scott Card Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
-
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
-
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
-
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
-
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
-
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.
-
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
-
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。
-
The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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!
-
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.
-
It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
-
We don’t aspire to genetic unity, no matter what your propagandists think. The pursuit of optima leads only to local minima. We honour our errors. We actively seek persistent disequilibrium.
-
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
-
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.
-
'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'