Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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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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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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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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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.