Orson Scott Card Quotes
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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'
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He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.