Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes

Orson Scott Card trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Orson Scott Card: 1172 quotes16 likes

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

Orson Scott Card book Heartfire

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I am a creature of chemicals.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You underestimate yourself.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant

“The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 13.

““I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”
“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 12.

“He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

““You're such a liar.”
“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)