Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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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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'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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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
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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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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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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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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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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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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 never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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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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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.