“A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“The devil takes his victories,” the man replied, “wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“Never true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is another matter. True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. And I must say that I have never seen such a connection in my life. There are times when I suspect there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creations of thought and have no substance.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“As the proverb said, “Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night.” Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“Zwyczajne dziecko zginęłoby dzisiaj. Tego wymagały prawa natury. Ale ktoś albo coś chroniło chłopca i prawo natury zostało złamane.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“Thrower started toward them at a trot, then remembered his dignity and walked the rest of the way. There was nothing in the gospels to imply that the Lord ever ran– only walked, as befitted his high station. Of course, Paul had his comments about running a good race, but that was allegory. A minister was supposed to be a shadow of Jesus Christ, walking in His way and representing Him to the people. It was the closest these people would ever come to beholding the majesty of God. It was Reverend Thrower's duty to deny the vitality of his youth and walk at the reverent pace of an old man, though he was only twenty-four.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
“Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter....”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
“Mr. Feeder, B.A. (who was in the habit of shaving his head for coolness, and had nothing but little bristles on it), gave him a boney hand, and told him he was glad to see him—which Paul would have been very glad to have told him, if he could have done so with the least sincerity. Then”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Dombey and Son
“In the hierarchy of man's activities, eating was the lowest. Eating had become the object of a cult, but in fact it was but the preliminary to other, utterly contemptible motions. It occurred to him that he wanted to perform one of these too.”
― Elias Canetti, quote from Auto-da-Fé
“Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say “Storms suck!” —Johnny carson”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“all the education and good intentions in the world couldn’t help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.”
― Barack Obama, quote from Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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