Orson Scott Card Quotes
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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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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I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.
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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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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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It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
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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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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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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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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 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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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.
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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
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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.