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Mean Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
- The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when…
- You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
- A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
- 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…
- I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful…
- Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
- The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be…
- Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
- Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when…
- Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these…
- Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams