Orson Scott Card · 212 pages
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“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember―the enemy's gate is down.
If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“He did what he thought was right,”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway,”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“The wind began to rush violently as he moved on, and he became aware of other creatures in the darkness. They came first as a vague awareness in his mind, then as soft cries that seemed to seep through the haze and cling inquisitively about him. At last they appeared as living bodies, touching softly with cringing fingers the flesh of his person. He laughed in maddened frenzy, knowing somehow that he was no longer in a world of living creatures, but a world of death where soulless beings wandered in hopeless search of escape from their eternal prison. He stumbled on amidst them, laughing, talking, even singing gaily, his mind no longer a part of his mortal being. All about him, the creatures of the dark world followed in cringing companionship, knowing that the maddened mortal was almost one of them. It was all a matter of time. When the mortal life was gone, he would be as they were – lost forever. Orl Fane would be with his own kind at last. Almost”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The Sword of Shannara
“It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.”
― Todd Burpo, quote from Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“I started to roll my eyes, but that hurt. The right one was pressed so firmly against the peephole, you see.”
― Alice Clayton, quote from Wallbanger
“It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The Selfish Gene
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