Orson Scott Card Quotes
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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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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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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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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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 believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'