“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
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“He will be sure to give us rest soon.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
“People, he told her, are shaped somehow by their climate and the land they live in. Those who live by the sea are like the currents and tides; they go and come, and discover many shores. Their words and loves are like water that slips between one's fingers and is never still. Mountain people have fought the mountain to win their place. Once they have conquered it they protect their mountain, and others coming from far below in the valley risk being seen as enemies. Hill people take some time before greeting each other.”
― Gil Courtemanche, quote from A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“It was the excitement, the richness of the whole experience, the mixture of pleasure and danger and freedom and the sun. You know, when we came back here, for a long while I still went on living in Euphoria inside my head. Outwardly I returned to my old routine. I got up in the morning, put on a tweed suit, read the Guardian over breakfast, walked into the University, gave the same old tutorials on the same old texts... and all the while I was leading a completely different life inside my head. Inside my head, I had decided not to come back to England, so I was waking up in Plotinus, sitting in the sun in my happi-coat, looking out over the Bay, putting on Levis and a sports shirt, reading the Euphoric Times over breakfast, and wondering what would happen today, would there be a protest, a demonstration, would my class have to fight their way through teargas and picket lines or should we meet off-campus in somebody's apartment, sitting on the floor surrounded by posters and leaflets and paperbacks about encounter groups and avant garde theatre and Viet Nam.”
― David Lodge, quote from Small World
“As the great William James put it almost 80 years ago: A man’s “Me” is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his mind, but his clothes and house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, his yacht and his bank-account (1892, p. 44). In other words, the human animal can be symbolically located wherever he feels a part of him really exists or belongs. This is important for an understanding of the bitter fighting between social classes for social status: an individual’s house in a posh neighborhood can be more a part of his self-image than his own arm—his life-pulse can be inseparable from it.”
― Ernest Becker, quote from The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
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