Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'
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'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'
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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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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 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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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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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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Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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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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That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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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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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.
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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.'