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Life Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
- I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have…
- One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers…
- Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled…
- It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together.…
- Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
- Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two…
- The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the…
- Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to…
- But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary…
- To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel…
- Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
- She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between…
- This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
- 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: the…
- You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die…
- Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
- But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that…
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you…
- Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have…
- Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
- Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val
- But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only…
- In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle