FastSaying

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.


Orson Scott Card

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...
ORSON WELLES The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just c...
ALEX WITCHEL Don’t worry what other people think about you. They are too busy worrying about what you think of ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh...
ELLEN DEGENERES I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commerc...
KURT BRAUNOHLER You stop worrying about things, just go with the ones you like, and there you'll find happiness and ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking a...
AVI If they try to do it for private commercial purposes, they lose all their money. You lose it across ...
HENRY BONILLA “If you care too much about what other people would think of you, then you will never think of, or...
QUI VUONG (EMPOWERMENTALIST) Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion...
HERBERT HOOVER I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
JO BRAND You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If you care too much about what other people might think of you, then you will never think of, or ac...
QUI VUONG (EMPOWERMENTALIST) Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the s...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new env...
BARTON SEAVER As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
GEORGE MACDONALD Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes an...
JEB BUSH Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel...
E.E. CUMMINGS Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar...
AMIR RIVEROLL That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 And I can no more stop worrying about you than I can stop myself from breathing.
CAYLA KLUVER You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up an...
DAVID GREEN Growing up doesn't need the next person to tell you that you need to grow up,it comes from within,yo...
GUNDO MULAUDZI When you see yourself struggling, keep pushing. It shows you are doing something. Dont give up, you ...
MLUNGISI SIMELANE Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren...
JOYCE RACHELLE A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purpos...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ No matter what anybody says about you, it doesn’t hold any significance to who you truly are unles...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You can’t stop the rain by worrying about it.
TADAHIKO NAGAO Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned i...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Do you truly believe in the worthiness of your dreams? Do you truly think they are worth the consist...
STEPHEN RICHARDS I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself,...
LUCILLE BALL You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers...
CLAY SHIRKY Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do a...
M. SCOTT PECK Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to as...
KATHRYN STOCKETT I don't believe we should be destroying a member of the species for simply research purposes.
DAVID PRENTICE Until you believe that you are all you need to be amazing, you probably won’t find yourself accomp...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT People always ask themselves what are the answers, and within the answer that enable them to grow or...
J C A ROWE I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of rem...
ZACHARY QUINTO I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now.
OASIS Are you indoctrinated?
Think of anything you believe in be it religious or social, like economi...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors le...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin...
ANDY STOLL In life, you will never find yourself, until you start to create yourself
BRYAN INDIGO I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could ex...
NEIL SHEEHAN In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.

"Am I the on...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a bette...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you w...
ROY T. BENNETT Everybody knows the system is not accurate, and we need to make it accurate, not for purposes of bal...
JOHN KASICH You gather enough people together, and you have some people who are dedicated to causing public diso...
THOMAS FORAN YOU ARE TOLD TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF, BUT I SAY LOVE THEM MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOURSELF FOR...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
PIERCE BROSNAN You need to believe in yourself.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Learn to stop comparing your own abilities, successes, and failures to that of other people. Create ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
RICK WARREN If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying ab...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God
SUNDAY ADELAJA Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.
THEA ASTLEY If you care too much about what other people might think of you, then you will never think of, or ac...
QUI VUONG (EMPOWERMENTALIST) You never find yourself until you face the truth
PEARL BAILEY You never find yourself until you face the truth.
PEARL BAILEY You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate ...
DAVID KENDALL Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to ma...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
PAT ROBERTSON All you do is take more money out of taxpayers' hands that could be used for something more useful, ...
STUART ANDERSON Freedom is the ability to ALLOW yourself to live outside of limits and other peoples expectations of...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don...
WAYNE KNIGHT If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you thin...
BARNEY FRANK The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
GLENN BECK When people run for political office, they make statements that they believe serve their political p...
LONN HOKLIN Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow ol...
AUDREY HEPBURN In a park, you can come in, take pictures and leave. But a preserve has a multiplicity of purposes.
DAVID BARNA When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum bui...
SUZY KASSEM Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite jou...
T.F. HODGE When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resent...
ROBERT GREENE If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry tha...
DALE CARNEGIE Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you a...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The future belongs to those who believe in delight of innovation & dream. Life ends when you stop dr...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The Almighty has His own purposes
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
CAITLYN JENNER Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you l...
STACY LONDON Fearlessly be yourself. Just be. Don't stop and worry about the judgements of others. Worry about wh...
AKIROQ BROST If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of imp...
C.S. LEWIS you won’t ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative ta...
MICHELE WOOLLEY The only thing that is limiting the blessings of God is our old way of thinking and lack of the unde...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It strikes me that you are trying to use the newspapers' good name for your own purposes.
CHARLES WHEELER I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...
EDDIE VEDDER Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Have a separate electronic communications policy, ... Let your employees know what you expect for co...
ANNE COVEY And if you stop and think about it You won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

More Orson Scott Card

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
ORSON SCOTT CARD One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I listen to music constantly while writing.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citize...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values tha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inve...
ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You who speak languages, you are such liars.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You made them hate me." Said Ender
"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kis...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...
ORSON SCOTT CARD An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD From now on, you forget about gravity before you go through that door. The old gravity is gone, eras...
ORSON SCOTT CARD This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and thos...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter ho...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that rede...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country -- if they e...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would h...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to beha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me sl...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
ORSON SCOTT CARD We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.
ORSON SCOTT CARD So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
ORSON SCOTT CARD With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Gun...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classe...
ORSON SCOTT CARD As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers...
ORSON SCOTT CARD …I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so d...
ORSON SCOTT CARD My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And ORSON SCOTT CARD We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A h...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, becom...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Ma...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your fac...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the s...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not lo...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get us...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really kn...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
ORSON SCOTT CARD ...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt ra...
ORSON SCOTT CARD What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing'...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable thi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
ORSON SCOTT CARD In order to learn, one must change one's mind
ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Might-have-beens are a bitch.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's s...
ORSON SCOTT CARD No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
ORSON SCOTT CARD the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It change...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intell...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
ORSON SCOTT CARD because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one wil...
ORSON SCOTT CARD All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?
ORSON SCOTT CARD Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I fel...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we drea...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.
ORSON SCOTT CARD You want to beat Peter?" she asked
"No," he answered
"Beat the buggers. Then come home an...
ORSON SCOTT CARD If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I li...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're not taking odds on it,” said Ender. “Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exis...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
"'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're prete...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitani...
ORSON SCOTT CARD With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
ORSON SCOTT CARD If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistak...
ORSON SCOTT CARD [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Let's fly away and live forever
ORSON SCOTT CARD Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.

I'm a raging mass of hormones the...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
ORSON SCOTT CARD None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
ORSON SCOTT CARD In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the onl...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.
Danny was touched. "But t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is sweet. Let it go on.
ORSON SCOTT CARD For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest so...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue,
ORSON SCOTT CARD I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The enemy's gate is down.
ORSON SCOTT CARD "Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that come...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes
ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for tho...
ORSON SCOTT CARD This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a te...
ORSON SCOTT CARD From you I can learn things that nobody knows.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to tr...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (an...
ORSON SCOTT CARD A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that mornin...
ORSON SCOTT CARD So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation."
"What was it, target practice? Ch...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...
ORSON SCOTT CARD As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
ORSON SCOTT CARD ...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
ORSON SCOTT CARD And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
ORSON SCOTT CARD Stories are invented as you go along...
ORSON SCOTT CARD But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The piggies were not to be disturbed-
ORSON SCOTT CARD Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
ORSON SCOTT CARD But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world o...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The computer is also not famous for having mercy.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I thought commanders could order anything.”
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
ORSON SCOTT CARD That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shor...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officer...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
ORSON SCOTT CARD At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD ORSON SCOTT CARD No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo...
ORSON SCOTT CARD