In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a… — 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
