Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“[Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
![“Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7c8/orson-scott-card-134_appropriate_whether-he-likes-it-or-not-he-cannot-rem_2167820.png)
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