The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them… — 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
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
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
