Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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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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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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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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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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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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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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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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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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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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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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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.'
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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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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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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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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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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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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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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.