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Things Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
- 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…
- Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever…
- I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead…
- If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good…
- Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
- I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try…
- Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
- That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers…
- I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head…
- America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding…
- 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 all manipulate people?…
- I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why…
- 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…
- 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 remember. My whole…
- Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in…
- Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle