Orson Scott Card Quotes
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The barrier was only in my mind - which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.
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'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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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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'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
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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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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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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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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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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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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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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
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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.
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They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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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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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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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.