“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper ”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“Vis dėlto stebėti debesis ir bangas buvo kur kas maloniau nei žmones. Su nuostaba pamačiau, kad žmogus nuo gamtos skiriasi daugiausia tais slidžiais melo drebučiais, jį supančiais ir saugančiais. Greitai įsitikinau, kad visiems mano pažįstamiems būdingas tas pats bruožas, tas aplinkybių diktatas, kai kiekvienas iš jų turi vaizduoti tam tikrą asmenybę, ryškią figūrą, o nė vienas iš jų nepripažįsta pats savęs. Keistai pasijutau, pamatęs, kad ir aš pats esu toks, ir nustojau ieškojęs asmenybės esmės. Daugeliui tie drebučiai buvo svarbiau už viską. Aš tai mačiau visur, net ir vaikai, sąmoningai ar nesąmoningai, vaidino kokį nors vaidmenį, užuot instinktyviai ir nesislapstydami atskleidę patys save.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Peter Camenzind
“Vic didn’t mind at all being considered odd. In fact, he was proud of it in a country in which most people aimed at being exactly like everybody else.”
― Patricia Highsmith, quote from Deep Water
“Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
“The Cayce Readings spoke of God as a universal loving intelligence that does not discriminate against anyone—nor should we: “More wars, more bloodshed have been shed over the racial and religious differences than over any other problem. These, too, must go the way of all others; and man must learn . . . whether they be called of this or that sect or schism or ism or cult, the Lord is ONE.”20”
― David Wilcock, quote from The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
“Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego—my sense of belonging to this universe—and made all else seem insignificant by comparison. “It’s”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
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