Orson Scott Card Quotes - Page 3

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."
"I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."
"But it keeps not ending."
"So far, so good.

You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.

The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

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 coin, and I'm the metal in between.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.
'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.
'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.'
'I don't know how.'
'It could be an anal exam.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson