Quotes from First Meetings in Ender's Universe

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


About the author

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