Orson Scott Card Quotes
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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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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Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
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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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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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How short life is for fools.
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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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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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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
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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'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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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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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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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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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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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?