Quotes from Earth Unaware

Orson Scott Card ·  368 pages

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“My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware



“It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“hatch. I wouldn’t risk another high-speed dock if we don’t have to.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn’t moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He’d expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn’t take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware



“Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“There wasn’t a trace of thrusters now.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


“We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Earth Unaware


About the author

Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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