Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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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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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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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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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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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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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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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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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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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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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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Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
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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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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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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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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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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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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.