Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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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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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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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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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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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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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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You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.
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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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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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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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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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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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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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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it’s always pleasantly.
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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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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.