the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every s... FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Inside that tiny seed, lives the roots, branches, bark, trunk, leaves, twigs and apple fruit of that... C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what?? (I'm stupi... 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JOHN GREEN It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. BOB MARLEY I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everyt... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ... ELIZABETH GILBERT For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN You have the fruit of the spirit in you, because when Christ comes in you everything he is and has c... JOYCE MEYER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said... WENDELL BERRY The seed John planted with me is to be more proactive with what we want to have happen, and write it... SCOTT CHASE She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li... NICHOLAS SPARKS Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wo... DEAN KOONTZ He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, an... THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as o... BIBLE You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ... MARY ROACH Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha... ORSON SCOTT CARD To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the ea... ANONYMOUS And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the ea... BIBLE I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c... DEYTH BANGER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA He paused and then said, as though the words were wrung out of him: ‘O God, Mama, I’ve made such... GEORGETTE HEYER Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every ... SYDNEY J. HARRIS You can get whatever it has if you can give whatever it takes SAJI IJIYEMI Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children.... GREG BEAR I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?'... JOSEPH TOWLE The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No car... PATTON OSWALT You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun o... ELIZA COUPE It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy... C. JOYBELL C. Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and... OS GUINNESS You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up wit... SOURCE UNKNOWN I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to ... MARK BATTERSON She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy. JAMIE MCGUIRE I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Ev... FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW! KAMAL KHANZADA (Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he st... BILLY COX Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The opening round is a wonderful thing for two teams to battle it out to take on a one seed. I was a... CHRIS KENNY People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN
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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