Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'